ABSTRACT
A new star was born in our Milky Way galaxy. In all contractions some degree of rotation exists and this causes the material to form into a circulating disk within which condensations occur to form a number of gravitationally bound objects. Whether these objects become a star or a planet depends entirely on the amount of material condensing in the gravitational contraction. The very first stars that were formed in the rapid star-burst era that marked the beginning of our galaxy contained no heavy elements, and any planets formed at that time could not have been even remotely like the Earth. But many of those early stars were more massive than the Sun and, consequently, evolved more rapidly to the extent that they had gone through their whole life-cycles by the time the Solar System was formed. In our Solar System, only the Sun reached this critical mass and the other condensations resulted in the formation of the planets.
