Does it ever make you wonder how all those different systems could come together, from dust and cold gas floating in the void? How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.