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This artwork shows the early solar system and how the gas giants–Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus–were able to so quickly attain their size. This current theory postulates that 3-4.5 billion years ago the planets were much closer together, and they lacked the standard orbits they have today leading to a lot of jostling. As the early gas giants moved, they were able to collect the debris that were thickly distributed in the younger solar system, with Jupiter even stealing some that would otherwise have allowed Mars to become larger.

Early solar system at a stage where the planets are still forming. One theory postulates that around 3 to 4.5 billion years ago the planets were much closer together. Also, it suggests that they were not in the orbits they inhabit today. As the early gas giants moved, they collected the debris that was thickly distributed in the younger solar system, with Jupiter stealing material that would have allowed Mars to become larger than it eventually was. Here, rocky debris is colliding with a red Sun in the background. (See Early Solar System Planets Illustration)