Before we call our Solar System The Solar System, what was it before?

What made it to what we

believe it is today? In the episode on the show The Universe aired on History Channel, they explained
on how everything came to be.

Summary:
It takes 700 million years to form out the Solar System to what it has come to today. But
before all that, its just a thin cloud of dust. Before then, it was already spinning, but when a nearby
supernova shocked the cloud, causing its gravity to collapse. As gravity draws in the clouds gas it spins
faster and inevitably flattens it to a disc, an ellipse to be exact, that will soon be where our solar system
be formed. A hundred years after it began the cloud is almost completely collapsed, with a radiant
center because of the emergence of a protostar, the earliest stage of becoming star. The emerging
protostar soon gobbles up the disk of gas and and dust that makes up the solar nebula.
Most of those will end up in the sun and the ones that are left over are for the planets, moons, asteroids
and also our own bodies.
After one million years after its beginning, the solar systems method for sorting out its
planet building material is clear wherein theyre separated by the different temperatures in the disc.
Close to the protosun reaches a temperature above 2,000 degrees, enabling it to vaporize everything.
About five million miles away from the protosun is the rock line where its cool enough for rocks and
minerals to turn solid. Much farther is the snow line where its as much as 375 degrees below zero,
having the ability of water, methane, and ammonia to freeze into ice. A much simpler description of this
would be that the cooler it is on the outside; the solar nebula starts to condense and starts to solidify.
Therefore you get a gaseous amount on the inside and solid on the outside. This is an analogy on what
the early protoplanets looked like. There are collisions that happened in the early solar system where
those tiny particles stick together due to mechanical interaction. In the inner part there are tiny cosmic
dust balls forming slowly getting stuck together by random collisions in their orbits around the early sun.
But in the outer part, it is much more complicated that will make the existence of the giant planets.
In two million years after its birth, the young system starts its first steps in creating the
planets to what it is today. Before that, they are all chunks of matter. The thick rotating disc, made
mostly of hydrogen gas, is embedded with solids. Outside the boundary, which is the snow line, there
are ices of water, methane, and ammonia which dominate the outer disc. Hydrogen is the most
abundant element in that region which combines to the elements such as oxygen to form the water,
carbon to form the methane, and nitrogen to form ammonia, giving us those compounds that has been
freezing out. Continual collisions make tiny specks of dust and ice to stick together through friction and
static electricity until theyre large enough for gravity to take over, and they become planetesimals, the
building blocks of the solar system. Those planetesimals will soon form the full scale planets but
distinctly of different sizes. The larger planets attracted ices of water, ammonia, methane, carbon
dioxide, and gases that made them get bigger, as compared to the smaller planets that didnt have that
much material to be made.
Three million years after time zero, the planetesimals turned into planet embryo. Just
beyond the snow line there has been a a lot of collisions that within just three million years gave birth to
the infant that will soon become the monster of the solar system, the infant Jupiter. The early Jupiter
was made of rock and ice, just a larger Earth. Then a protoplanet collides with its surface that enabled its
gravity to quickly draw in materials that made it very large very fast. In just a hundred years, Jupiter
obtained its present size. Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus followed Jupiter in devouring enough gas to
become Gas Giants. Three million years along the timeline, Jupiter and Saturn are now the titans of the
Solar System.
 10 million years into its life, the young solar system is virtually out of gas (mostly hydrogen
and helium) because it fuelled the planets Jupiter and Saturn. In this time, the sun shone brightly since
the matter that covered the young solar system
At 50 million years old, our solar system is only at 1% to what it is today. In many systems, the central
star doesnt have enough mass to fully ignite but our sun has reached its critical threshold of heat where
nuclear fusion begin in its core and thus bursts into life as a fully formed new born star.
In the inner solar system proto planets are still trying to grow despite of the lack of gas in the
atmosphere, only depending on the collision of rocks for its growth. Upon those collision of rocks will
come to the result of the four inner planets.
In the orbit of Jupiter lies a narrow region of planetesimals called the Asteroid Belt. The gravitational
force of Jupiter influences those planetesimals in the Asteroid Belt not to form any planets. Collisions
occur inside the belt but unlike those that formed or helped in the growth of the planets, this type of
collision is destructive. At the outskirts of the solar system there is also another region where planets
dont form, its called the Kuiper Belt. The reason why planets never form in that region is because they
are too far apart from each other.
In 75 million years after its birth, the process in forming the rocky planets is almost done. It
took ten times longer to form them as compared to the Gas Giants. In this time, the proto earth has
reached planet size in a stable orbit, but is accompanied by a proto planet called Theia in which has the
same orbit of Earth. Since they are orbiting at a very dangerous pace, the two collides with one another,
which formed a ring of debris that came from the crust and mantle of both planets then with those the
Earths moon is formed.
At the age of 500 million years old, all the planets of the solar system has been formed but its
formation isnt the same with today. The three outermost planets are closer to the planet. The materials
in the Kuiper Belt and the Asteroid Belt are flung around by the giant planets that make their orbits
migrate to new positions. Its called the slingshot effect thats used by scientists in the 1970s on the
Voyager spacecraft that allowed it to travel from planet to planet.
The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn reach a tipping point called resonance which means that every time
Saturn orbits the sun once, Jupiter goes around it twice that result to the both of them coming very
close to each other in the same part of the solar system that creates an immense gravity pump. The
gravity pump, along with the planets having gravitational interactions with each other, made Neptune
and Uranus switch places with Neptune became farther away than Uranus. The resonances effect
doesnt just apply to these two planets, it also cleared out most of the systems small objects.
The gravitational chaos made by Jupiter and Saturn battered the inner solar systems planets and
moons in a late event that we call the late heavy bombardment. A lot of the comets from the outer
system fell in the inner systems planets and moons, in which caused the craters that we see today.
Some researchers believe that the Earth had life once, eradicated by collisions. Though it weighs to the
negative, it is also said that those collisions also brought positive effects to our planet. Without the
impact of those objects, the planet may not have had the same amount of water that we have today.
4.6 billion years has passed since the birth of the solar system and objects that came from the system
we call meteorites enter the planet that helps researchers see if the making of the solar system really
happened. Up to now they are still looking for evidences in order to prove their researches to become
accurate by sending space crafts into the system. From there, they will obtain new knowledge and prove
on how the solar system came to be.