The Solar System[a] consists of

the Sun and those celestial

objects bound to it by gravity, all
of which formed from the
collapse of a giant molecular
cloud approximately 4.6 billion
years ago.

The Solar System is also home to two

main belts of small bodies. The asteroid
belt, which lies between Mars and
Jupiter, is similar to the terrestrial planets
as it is composed mainly of rock and
metal. The Kuiper belt (and its
subpopulation, the scattered disc), which
lies beyond Neptune's orbit, is composed
mostly of ices such as water, ammonia
and methane. Within these belts, five
individual objects, Ceres, Pluto, Haumea,
Makemake and Eris, are recognised to be
large enough to have been rounded by
their own gravity, and are thus termed
dwarf planets. The hypothetical Oort
cloud, which acts as the source for long-
period comets, may also exist at a
distance roughly a thousand times
beyond these regions.
Within the Solar System, various
populations of small bodies, such as
comets, centaurs and interplanetary dust,
freely travel between these regions, while
the solar wind, a flow of plasma from the
Sun, creates a bubble in the interstellar
medium known as the heliosphere, which
extends out to the edge of the scattered
disc.
Six of the planets and three of the dwarf
planets are orbited by natural satellites,
usually termed "moons" after Earth's
Moon. Each of the outer planets is
encircled by planetary rings of dust and
other particles.
Charles Darwin: Origin of the
Species; ang tao'y di basta-
bastang sumulpot kundi unti-
unting dumating sa kasalukuyan
niyang kalagayan at hitsura;
unang nagbigay ng ebidensyang
nagpatunay dito; maraming tao
ang di naniwala dito dahil labag
daw ito sa istorya ni Adan at
Eva. Humanap ang mga
siyentipiko ng ebidensiya upang
mapatunayan ang teorya ni
Darwin
Isinasaad ng teorya ito na ang
buhay sa daigdig ay nagmula sa
simpleng selyula. Mula rito, ang
iba't ibang anyo ng buhay (life-
forms) ay nagbago at dumami
sa iba't ibang kaparaanan sa
paglipas ng panahon.

Sa ibang salita, ang mga

simpleng organismo ay
nagbigay-daan sa pglitaw ng
iba't ibng uri ng higit na
maslimuot na organismo
makaraan ang libo o milyong
taon ng pagbabago o ebolusyon.
Halimbawa, ang tAi at ang
gorilya ay sinasabi ng mga
siyentipiko na nagmula sa iisang
ninuno. Isa ngang inaatupang ng
mga siyentista ang pagtuklas sa
ninunong ito gayundin ang mga
pgbabago nto hanggang sa
maging modernong tao.