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The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well as other planetary systems). It suggests the Solar System is formed from gas and dust orbiting the Sun which clumped up together to form the planets.
A major difficulty was that, in this supposition, turbulent dissipation took place over the course of a single millennium, which did not give enough time for planets to form. The nebular hypothesis was first proposed in 1734 by Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg [6] and later expanded upon by Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1755.
The nebular hypothesis says that the Solar System formed from the gravitational collapse of a fragment of a giant molecular cloud, [9] most likely at the edge of a Wolf-Rayet bubble. [10] The cloud was about 20 parsecs (65 light years) across, [9] while the fragments were roughly 1 parsec (three and a quarter light-years) across. [11]
[2] [3] Nicholson was also the first to create a nuclear and quantum theory that explains spectral line radiation as electrons descend toward the nucleus, identifying hitherto unknown solar and nebular spectral lines. [4] [5] Niels Bohr quoted him in his 1913 paper of the Bohr model of the atom. [6]
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Although it is debatable when the Solar System as such was truly "discovered", three 19th century observations determined its nature and place in the Universe beyond reasonable doubt. First, by 1835–1838, Thomas Henderson [ 41 ] and Friedrich Bessel [ 42 ] successfully measured two stellar parallax , an apparent shift in the position of a ...