A scene portraying the early stages of a solar system ?

A scene portraying the early stages of a solar system forming, when the (proto-)planet(-s) are heavily bombarded with smaller bodies, such as asteroids and comets. The presence of the bombarding objects is abundant, as you can see here. This hadean condition may have been sparked by a gas giant migrating closer to the star, hence nudging the rocks into unstable orbits. Some astronomers believe this late heavy bombardment occured 3.8-4.1 GYs ago. Asteroid and comet impacts were much greater in number than today, very early in Earth's history

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