How would the sun have looked at the formation of the Galaxy?
1 Answer
Mar 20, 2016
The Sun didn't exist at the formation of the galaxy.
Explanation:
The Milky Way galaxy is over 13 billion years old. It is almost as old as the universe.
The Sun however is only 4.6 billion years old. Some of the hydrogen which the Sun is made of would have been present in the early galaxy. Some of the material would have come from collisions with other galaxies.
The heavier elements in our solar would have been created by large stars which were born, lived their main sequence life and then exploded as supernovae well before the Sun was born.
