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What is the leading explanation for the birth of our solar system?
Who formally developed the concept of a rotating, collapsing nebula in their 1755 publication?
What significant physical issue caused the earlier Laplacian model to encounter difficulties?
What is the modern iteration of the Nebular Hypothesis called?
What is the name of the flat, spinning structure that forms around the central protosun?
What materials condensed into solid grains in the hot inner regions closest to the nascent Sun?
What astronomical feature separates the inner rocky worlds from the outer icy worlds by defining where volatiles freeze?
Which stage of accretion involves larger bodies growing disproportionately fast by gravitationally sweeping up smaller neighbors?
What process is believed to have sculpted the final count of terrestrial planets through violent orbital interactions?
What is one leading physical mechanism proposed by the SNDM to explain the transfer of angular momentum outward from the young Sun?
What is the primary factor determining whether a star evolves into a Giant or a Supergiant?
What physical state maintains stability for a star during the vast majority of its existence?
Why do stars with greater initial mass consume their hydrogen fuel much faster than solar-mass stars?
What process initiates the rapid expansion characteristic of the Red Giant phase in a Sun-like star?
What is the approximate minimum initial mass threshold that generally designates a star as destined for the Supergiant classification?
Which element forms in the core of a massive star immediately preceding the catastrophic loss of thermal pressure?
For stars in the low-to-intermediate mass range (up to $\approx 8 M_\odot$), what process follows the exhaustion of core helium fusion?
What is the ultimate fate of a Sun-sized star because its residual core mass falls below the Chandrasekhar limit?
What term is used for the hottest giants that are spectral types O, B, or early A?
How does the radius of a Red Supergiant, like Betelgeuse, generally compare to the maximum expansion of a Red Giant like the future Sun?
What is the core temperature requirement for helium fusion via the triple-alpha process in a Sun-sized star?
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