Or you could say that Comet ISON's end was foretold 4.56 billion years ago, when it and trillions of others like it formed during the birth of the solar system. (discovermagazine.com)
Earth formed as part of the birth of the solar system: what eventually became the solar system initially existed as a large, rotating cloud of dust and gas. (sciencedaily.com)
Tracking down that heat touched off another detective process, with the trail leading all the way back to the birth of the solar system. (discovermagazine.com)