Did planets or galaxies come first?

So then the chronological order would be: Universe (Largest scale) => gases (very small scale) => galaxy => interstellar clouds => stars => planets (combined to form planetary systems).
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What came before galaxies?

In the beginning, there was an infinitely dense, tiny ball of matter. Then, it all went bang, giving rise to the atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies we see today. Or at least, that's what we've been told by physicists for the past several decades.
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Did planets or stars form first?

“Traditionally it was thought that a star does most of its formation before the planets form, but our observations showed that they form simultaneously.”
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What came first the Universe or Earth?

Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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What came first in the universe?

The Big Bang was the moment 13.8 billion years ago when the universe began as a tiny, dense, fireball that exploded. Most astronomers use the Big Bang theory to explain how the universe began.
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When did planets start forming?

The Sun and the planets formed together, 4.6 billion years ago, from a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. A shock wave from a nearby supernova explosion probably initiated the collapse of the solar nebula. The Sun formed in the center, and the planets formed in a thin disk orbiting around it.
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Did stars form before galaxies?

The first stars did not appear until perhaps 100 million years after the big bang, and nearly a billion years passed before galaxies proliferated across the cosmos.
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When was the first planet created?

It formed around a young, sun-like star barely 1 billion years after our universe's birth in the Big Bang. The ancient planet has had a remarkable history because it resides in an unlikely, rough neighborhood.
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When did time begin?

According to the standard big bang model of cosmology, time began together with the universe in a singularity approximately 14 billion years ago.
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What came first black hole or galaxy?

It's not understood yet whether a black hole or a galaxy came first. In recent observations, a super-massive black hole was discovered in an early-stage small galaxy.
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What came first space or time?

According to Albert Einstein, space and time are simply different aspects of the same entity now called 'spacetime'. It therefore seems plausible that they came into existence simultaneously.
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What is older than the universe?

The star HD 140283 is a subgiant star with an estimated age of 14.46 billion years. That might raise an eyebrow or two for those of you who remember that the age of the universe is estimated as 13.77 billion years.
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What is the oldest thing on Earth?

What is this? The zircon crystals from Australia's Jack Hills are believed to be the oldest thing ever discovered on Earth. Researchers have dated the crystals to about 4.375 billion years ago, just 165 million years after the Earth formed. The zircons provide insight into what the early conditions on Earth were like.
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When were the first galaxies formed?

Observations by Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments show that the first galaxies took shape as little as one billion years after the Big Bang, which probably took place about 13 billion to 14 billion years ago. There are two leading theories to explain how the first galaxies formed.
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What comes before a black hole?

When a star burns through the last of its fuel, the object may collapse, or fall into itself. For smaller stars (those up to about three times the sun's mass), the new core will become a neutron star or a white dwarf. But when a larger star collapses, it continues to compress and creates a stellar black hole.
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Was there a star before the Sun?

So, before the Sun, there must have existed a star - probably an intermediate mass star - which evolved to become a giant, made barium in its interior, then lost its envelope through a massive wind into the interstellar medium, and that material was incorporated into the protosun.
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How the universe was formed?

Our universe began with an explosion of space itself - the Big Bang. Starting from extremely high density and temperature, space expanded, the universe cooled, and the simplest elements formed. Gravity gradually drew matter together to form the first stars and the first galaxies.
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In what order did the planets form?

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible Planet Nine.
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Why is Pluto not a planet?

According to the IAU, Pluto is technically a “dwarf planet,” because it has not “cleared its neighboring region of other objects.” This means that Pluto still has lots of asteroids and other space rocks along its flight path, rather than having absorbed them over time, like the larger planets have done.
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Who is the first God in universe?

Brahma the Creator

In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good & evil and light & dark from his own person. He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors, and men (the first being Manu).
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What was the first thing to exist?

The earliest life forms we know of were microscopic organisms (microbes) that left signals of their presence in rocks about 3.7 billion years old. The signals consisted of a type of carbon molecule that is produced by living things.
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Who created the earth?

Chapter 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Are black holes older than the universe?

The new study suggests that small primordial black holes filled the early universe right after the Big Bang, acting as an accelerator of star and galaxy formation. This theory by itself is not new, as it was proposed by Stephen Hawking in 1971.
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