Elishevah van Kooten

Putting together the Solar System is like crafting a high-end tasting menu: the recipe isn't always set in stone — sometimes the final ingredient is added while the dish is already cooking.

In the cold depths of space float rocks older than Earth itself. Inside some of them hide tiny glassy spheres — chondrules. They formed when a disk of gas and dust still swirled around the young Sun. Carbonaceous meteorites Asuka 12236, Paris, and Maribo have preserved these spheres almost untouched.