Planet formation

Planets form from dust and gas rotating around a young star in a disk. Imagine our solar system as a giant whirlpool: the Sun is in the center, and dust grains collide around it. They stick together like rolling snowballs to form larger bodies. Near the Sun, it is hot, so rocky worlds like Earth formed there. Further out in the cold, gas and ice accumulated, creating giants like Jupiter or Saturn. This process takes millions of years, transforming chaotic debris into an organized system of orbiting paths.