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Episode 2.1 · 30 min

How the Solar System Was Made

From a collapsing cloud to a young Sun and a disk of forming planets, with meteorites preserving the chronology of the Solar System’s birth.

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Visual credits

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Research references

Selected sources from the episode’s research and scientific figures.

  1. https://www.si.edu/object/allende%3Anmnhmineralsciences_1041071 ↗
  2. https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/815/SCES-0025.pdf ↗
  3. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1226919 ↗
  4. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2512/ ↗
  5. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1436/ ↗
  6. https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/exoalma-survey-reveals-incredible-images-of-structures-in-protoplanetary-disks/ ↗
  7. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2111/ ↗
  8. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2604/ ↗
  9. https://exoplanet.ipac.caltech.edu/ ↗
  10. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716306226 ↗
  11. https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo941 ↗
  12. https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/12/9/nwaf281/8196576 ↗
  13. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703709003287 ↗
  14. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6739091/ ↗
  15. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09163-z ↗
  16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15556630 ↗
  17. https://public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/ ↗
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  19. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5414277/ ↗
  20. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/4025/8211812 ↗
  21. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-024-01113-x ↗
  22. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6425492/ ↗
  23. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3228481/ ↗
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  25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347716 ↗
  26. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11297 ↗
  27. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01752 ↗
  28. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103510004574 ↗
  29. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08970-8 ↗
  30. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2194-z ↗
  31. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10201 ↗
  32. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03539 ↗
  33. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02340-6 ↗
  34. https://www.oca.eu/images/LAGRANGE/pages_perso/morby/1-s2.0-S0019103517303408-main.pdf ↗
  35. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0959-9 ↗
  36. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9032962/ ↗
  37. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02393 ↗
  38. https://www.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/nasas-tally-of-planets-outside-our-solar-system-reaches-6000/ ↗
  39. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/nvqpf-cwf07 ↗
  40. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4156743/ ↗
  41. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0129 ↗
  42. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02342-4 ↗
  43. https://www.planetary.org/space-images/allende-meteorite ↗
  44. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.13970 ↗

Music

  • Meditation From The Star Orion
    OctahedronMusic · Envato Elements

How this film was made

Created and editorially directed by Anders Lunde using a custom production system developed over six months. AI assists research, drafting, programming, and visual production; I review and edit the material and make the final editorial decisions. Narration uses text-to-speech. Visuals combine custom-built scientific animations, AI-generated reconstructions, and credited scientific imagery.

Generated reconstructions illustrate scientific interpretations. They are distinct from photographs, specimens, and measured data.

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