Solar System was not discovered for many thousand years, and humans believed that Earth was motionless at the center of the Universe. The third episode in the sixth season of the Universe video reports the Solar System was formed 4.6 billion years ago from a thin cloud of dust and gas. This means that planet formation is a natural part of star formation and most stars have planets (Seeds, 418). The solar system was shaken by a close by supernova, gravity pull and the regular rotation twisted it into a horizontal disc that merged the Sun and the planets. The 4 planets in the inner solar system are made of rock and metal, and the other 4 planets in the outer solar system are made of giant gas balls.
The video shows the solar system works in a similar fashion such as the roller coaster rides, celestial colossal, bumper cars and the sugar candy machine. Collision is an important aspect in solar system as without collision the solar system cannot grow. The entire galaxy rotates and everything in the galaxy rotates with respect to everything else. The spinning of the ice skater is a good example of the galaxy rotation. The earth circles the sun, the sun circles the galaxy and the galaxy drifts through space with billons of other galaxies (Seeds, 2). In the inner solar system the process of the particles sticking together is time consuming as any cosmic dust balls form slowly; however in the outer solar system the giant planets burst into existence in a cosmic blink of an eye. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the region of the solar system, as it combines with other components to generate the compounds.
The current solar system has solid objects called Planetesimal that are categorized by dynamics and structure, and these objects are present in debris disks and protoplanetary disks. These Planetesimals are now merging into bigger objects called Protoplanets or Planetary embryos. Jupiter and Saturn are considered the titans of the solar system as they contain 92% of non-solar mass in the entire solar system. Research has found that there are nearly 12,000 planets in the solar system, and other stars have their own solar systems. It can be concluded that the solar system occurred in the space of 700 million years, while the planets competed for location, defending the brutal asteroids and placing themselves in a well-ordered, steady system that we now consider to be intermittence in the cosmos.
Works Cited
“How the Solar System was Made”, The Universe (TV series). The History Channel. Flight 33
Productions and Workaholic Productions. 8 November, 2011. Television.
Seeds, Michael A. The Solar System. Illustrated, Cengage Learning (2007). Print.
