The Formation of the Solar System HD

Better in HD So I thought I would make a video of the solar system forming out of a cloud nebula and try to make it as realistic as possible. This has a few problems. 1) The Sun has a radius of about 1.4 million km and Jupiter is about 550 times that distance away. Thus the Sun would be one bright pixel on a black background, even in HD, and no planet comes close to being visible. 2) The process takes about 600 million years, so if you sample once every Neptunian year (~165 years) at 30 frames/sec the video would be 33 hours long and all the other planets would appear to be moving backwards. I shudder to think of the render time. 3) Given the mass of the Sun at ~300,000 times Earth, that is only 1 Earth mass of diffuse hydrogen every 2000 years, so not that dramatic either. So you have to go for some artistic interpretation to make things big enough and fast enough to see. It is also much more symmetric than one would expect, but I think that symmetry looks pretty. The main point is to show the ideas I want to get across: 1) Almost all the mass goes into the Sun. 2) The process takes a while. 3) The late heavy bombardment period could be caused by either high density matter near the Sun or by returning matter flung out earlier in the formation process. 4) The flash of fusion ignition. 5) The proposed swapping of Neptune and Uranus due to resonance with Saturn and Jupiter 6) It started with a large amount of angular momentum. The soundtrack is Venus, Bringer of Peace. I hope you like it.