Cosmic Detectives: Unlocking Secrets of Our Solar System! #shorts

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[00:00:01]Everyone's fascinated by these crime TV shows where the scientists look carefully at tiny little clues try to figure out who murdered this person.

[00:00:08]That's exactly what we're doing here.

[00:00:09]We're looking at tiny little clues very carefully with a giant magnifying glasses essentially to understand exactly how the planets were born and how the sun was born and what was there before that. And just like being a detective.

[00:00:23]Comet detective Zolensky and his team have found grains that have been superheated. They must have formed very close to the sun in the earliest days of our solar system and then been pushed out to the farthest reaches of space.

[00:00:38]Looking here you can see the particle entered here and then crashed into here basically expanded out either exploded or expanded out and grains are trapped all along this bulb surface actually.

[00:00:52]It's an incredible sight to be able to go in the lab and see in there suspended in the airgel grains that are 4 and 1/2 billion years old and basically are are are the distant answers.