I found a great article that talks about the birth of our solar system and our Sun. I have copied and pasted some of the details below and then linked the article if you would like to read more about what lies ahead for our Sun. "The Sun (and all the planets) started their lives in a giant cloud of cold molecular gas and dust. And then about 4.6 billion years ago, something bumped into the cloud, like the gravity from a passing star, or shockwaves from a supernova, causing the cloud to collapse. With the collapse, the mutual gravity from the particles in the cloud pulled together, and formed pockets of denser material in the cloud. These were star forming regions, and one of them was to become the Solar System. As the cloud collapsed, conservation of momentum for all the particles in the cloud made it start spinning. Most of the material ended up in a ball at the center, but this was surrounded by a flattened disk of material. The ball at the center would eventually form the Sun, while the disk of material would form the planets. The Sun spent about 100,000 years as a collapsing protostar before temperature and pressures at the core ignited fusion at its core. The Sun started as a T Tauri star – a wildly active star that blasted out an intense solar wind. And then, just a few million years later, it settled down into its current form. The life of the Sun had begun." http://www.universetoday....847/life-of-the-sun/