Science Today: Simulating Solar System Formation | California Academy of Sciences

Our spacecraft have visited rocky asteroids and icy comets to collect invaluable data about the origin of the Solar System. And the orbits of Kuiper Belt Objects—tiny worlds far from the Sun—reveal that our planetary system had a terrifically violent past, when giant planets changed their orbits, wreaking gravitational havoc. Visualizations from the Academy’s award-winning planetarium show Incoming! tell the story of this ancient interplanetary transformation.
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[mashudasaleh]

That’s the best simulation I’ve seen thus far on protoplanetary disks and planet formation.

[MagSec]

I understand how this very brief video and description of our current understanding of the solar system can easily seem like speculation from out of nowhere to many people. Every bit of proclamation in this video has behind it a vast amount of accumulated data, data analysis, hypothesis testing, prediction, refinement, error correction, peer review, and painstaking work from many generations of countless scientists spanning centuries, and then yet more data from modern instrumentation that is among the most magnificent ever made by humans. I would only ask that, if there's genuine interest, people look into learning about _how_ we know what we know, before dismissing proclamations that don't mesh with their intuitions. The how is not included here, but it's very important and fascinating on its own.

[SkywalkerSamadhi]

This is so beautiful.
How are things like this not considered as art??

[zipo]

It is fascinating what time can create

[rio_agustian_]

Wow, that's a lots of numerical analysis and codes

[tel]

Please don't be discouraged by fools below, they actively seek out knowledge to discredit to make their cause look more than it actually is. They are short minded idiots that are willingly blinded by there own blind faith

[SuryaSood]

Thank you for creating and posting this, it was amazing to behold and understand.

[garrettklatt]

I'm confused how the planetesimals appear to spinning the oppisite of how our planet spins today. In my own mind, I'm having trouble seeing how planets form in a clockwise spin (like i see it in my head) vs our counter-clockwise spin we have today.

[NoisyAstronomer]

Watching this to see if it'll work in one of my lessons... and I see that one of the simulations is by one of my friends from grad school!

[AstroGate]

Can we use this simulation in our channel for educational purposes?

[salem]

What is known about Jupiter?
• The winds on Jupiter can be as fast as 540 km/h.
• Clouds are stretched into bands that run from east
to west.
• Storms appear as white or red spots between cloud bands. The best known of these storms is the Great Red Spot.

[leilanihanaike]

I saw this in the Planetarium on Labor Day last week and it was amazing to see these images in such an incredible setting. Have to say I prefer the George Takei narrated version.

[iRossco]

Awesome sim thanks however can you add an initial dust cloud process showing it collapse into the disc to show/answer to people how we get a disc that becomes the solar system. Probably best as a separate video. Thankyou.

[realdragon]

2:30 "We are going into overdrive!"

[nerdzy]

Beware the comment section. Seems like there may be a few *creationists* down there.

[wbdfehd]

Завораживает, удивляет, поражает, восхищает... И всё это очень слабо сказано. Эмоции запредельные. Похоже, что вселенная сказочнее, чем это может представить кто-либо . Как такая красота возможна? Откуда возникла такая логика рождения и развития окружающей нас супер вселенной.

[Bea-fcsn]

Effing excellent animation, exactly what I wanted to see😍

[tel]

Awesome, thank you for this video, its so great

[roslinked]

wow. that was amazing! where can i see more of these?

[fosarvian]

One correction that I’m sure someone more qualified can elaborate on is that the initial accretion from the cloud and pebbles wasn’t entirely from gravity but static electric forces. Gravity alone would not have been fast enough to cause it.