From the Big Bang to the present day, explore the magnificent story of how our universe evolved over 13.8 billion years.
Big Bang
13.8 billion years ago
Particle Era
1 second after Big Bang
Dark Ages
380,000 years later
Galaxy Formation
500M-1B years
Modern Universe
Present
If the entire 13.8 billion year history of the universe was compressed into a single Earth year, humans would only appear in the last minute of December 31st.
Everything began with an unimaginably violent explosion. In ...
In an extremely short time, the universe experienced exponen...
The universe cooled to a sufficient temperature for quarks t...
The universe had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to c...
After atoms formed, the universe became transparent but had ...
The first generation of stars (known as Population III) bega...
Gravity caused gas clouds to contract further, forming galax...
Over the past 10 billion years, the universe has continued t...
Based on our current understanding of dark energy, the unive...
Everything began with an unimaginably violent explosion. In an extremely short time, an infinitely dense singularity began to expand, creating time, space, matter, and energy.
13.8 billion years ago
Everything began with an unimaginably violent explosion. In an extremely short time, an infinitely dense singularity beg...
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."