What Does This Chaotic Gas Cloud Have To Do With Our Solar System's Origins?

Professor Brian Cox reveals how beauty and order in Earth's cosmic backyard was formed from nothing more than a chaotic cloud of gas. Chasing tornadoes in Oklahoma, he explains how the same physics that creates these spinning storms shaped the young Solar System. Out of this celestial maelstrom emerged the jewel in the crown, Brian's second wonder - the magnificent rings of Saturn.

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