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A NASAthe US space agency, this week shared a video showing the process of creating the Moon, in a new theory about the origins of our natural satellite, some 4.5 billion years ago.
The simulation was performed by a supercomputer during an agency study. The video begins with the collision of a celestial body (Theia) the size of Mars with our planet.
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The debris from the impact then transforms into two other bodies that initiate a “space dance” caused by the force of gravity.
NASA’s simulation shows the process of creating the Moon. – Photo: NASA
In the images it is possible to see that the smaller star is totally engulfed by the red-hot sphere of gas and magma that would be our Earth, while the other is launched into orbit.
According to NASA, all of this would have happened in a few hours. A definitive explanation for this formation has puzzled scientists for decades.
Most theories hold that the Moon formed from the debris of this collision, but that it took months or even years.
“This simulation opens up a whole new range of possible starting points for the evolution of the Moon,” said Jacob Kegerreis, postdoctoral researcher at NASA.
