The Universe: How the Solar System was Made

2011 · 45 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 71 VOTES

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Overview

At 4.6 billion years old, the Solar System is our solid, secure home in the Universe. But how did it come to be? In this episode we trace the system's birth from a thin cloud of dust and gas. Shocked by a nearby supernova, the pull of gravity and natural rotation spun it into a flat disc from which the Sun and planets coalesced. It all happened in the space of 700 million years, during which the planets jockeyed for position, dodging the brutal bombardment of deadly asteroids and setting into the neat, stable system that we now realize might be a rarity in the universe.

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Dialogue Timeline — 667 lines

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00:00:00 In the beginning, there was darkness, and then-- Bang! Giving birth to
00:01:57 it can send a shockwave through this molecular cloud...
00:03:41 The collapsing cloud destined to become our
00:05:22 The most basic of these motions is circular, like
00:06:58 Mm-hmm.
00:08:14 nebula.
00:10:07 First we take the sugar crystals, and we pour that into
00:11:22 microscopic at this point, far smaller than the melting sugar
00:13:34 The thick rotating disc made mostly of hydrogen gas, is embedded with solids.
00:15:32 were able to attract ices of water, amonium, methane and carbon dioxide
00:17:57 We see this process happening in other solar systems being formed as well.
00:19:49 the rest of the universe.
00:21:42 In some systems, the cores of contracting clouds never glow
00:24:01 the planets in the inner part of the Solar System
00:25:21 hard, this stuff breaks really easy, and it crumbles.
00:27:02 isn't that the same process that actually forms a planet?
00:28:24 objects in them than they do today.
00:30:30 Solar System must have been a spectacular event.
00:32:23 Early on, the outer planets tended to move around quite a bit.
00:34:23 What if we were to add Jupiter to the system?
00:36:11 The resonance is a cataclysm whose effects sweep
00:38:30 Some have speculated that much of the water we have on Earth is
00:40:48 One of the exciting things about the Dawn Mission
00:42:35 Some systems have Jupiter-sized planets close to their suns

Cast & Characters

Erik Thompson Narrator Alex Filippenko Self - Univ. of California, Berkeley Michael Mischna Self - NASA Michael Mischna JPL Edward Young Self - Univ. of California, Los Angeles Clifford V. Johnson Self - Univ. of Southern California Laura Danly Self - Griffith Observatory Mike Brown Self - Caltech Charles Beichman Self - NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Ryan Johnson Self - Special effects artist Ryan C. Johnson Special Effects artist

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed667
Dialogue density14.8 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:42:35

Production Record

LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes71