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Nebular Hypothesis

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Noun

1. nebular hypothesis

(cosmology) the theory that the solar system evolved from a hot gaseous nebula

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Nebular Hypothesis

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noun
the theory that the solar system evolved from the gravitational collapse of nebular matter

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Nebular Hypothesis

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any of several hypotheses about the origin of the solar system, based on the theory that the sun and the planets formed at about the same time from a nebula

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nebular Hypothesis

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n.
A hypothesis concerning the formation of stars and planets, and therefore the origin of the solar system, according to which a rotating nebula underwent gravitational collapse into a star with an accretion disk, from which planets condensed or formed by coagulation of dust particles into increasingly larger bodies.

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