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The Sun and solar phenomena

The Sun is a yellow dwarf and yet it is truly gigantic, it has captured 99.86% of the total mass of dust and gas of the original nebula. Jupiter, the largest planet in the system, captured 71% of the remainder. The other planets shared the residue of this gravitational evolution.

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