1. Formation of the Solar System Stars, solar systems form within giant molecular clouds Requires high density, dust, and low temperatures to initiate gravitational collapse Our solar system apparently formed after blast wave from a supernova compressed a giant molecular cloud, forming hundreds or thousands of stars; sun was one of them Tidal torque produces angular momentum Gravitational collapse then flattens to a disk Eddy formation, merging, proto-planets gravitational collapse to form planets

2. Dark nebulae,blue dust

3. Eagle Nebula, wide field

4. Dust columns

6. SFR in LMC

7. Orion sfr

8. Lagoon closeup

9. OrionNeb unsharp mask

10. Dust disks in Orion

13. Fomalhaut disk

14. Beta pictoris

15. Beta pic diagram

16. Eps Eridani

17. protoDisks

18. Zodiacal light

19. Dust grain making dust bunnies

20. Dust bunnies into planets

21. Dirt clods artist

22. Eddys into planets

23. Oort cloud

24. Migration of planets and Kuiper Belt

25. Planet gap, inspiral

26. First image extrasolar

27. Planet transit 2

28. Planet transit

29. 1999 Mercury transit

30. Venus transit 2004

31. RV curve; conceptual

32. RV curves of planets

33. Nearby SS compared to ours

34. Solar neighborhood – other SS’

35. Summary of other SS planets,dist’s