From Cosmic Dust to Planets: The Birth of New Worlds 🌍✨ Ever wondered how planets like Earth came to exist? The answer lies in the quiet chaos of deep space — within colossal clouds of gas, dust, and atoms that swirl around newborn stars. Billions of years ago, gravity pulled together tiny particles inside a protoplanetary disk, forming clumps that collided, merged, and grew larger over time. These early building blocks, called planetesimals, eventually became protoplanets — the seeds of entire