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  13,8 billion years ago a hot dense point called a spectrum
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  some basic nuclei started to form about 3 seconds after the big bang
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  10 thousand years after the big bang
 most of the universe is pure energy called radiation
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  300 thousand years after the big band H&HE atoms finally form
 gas (h&he) floats around in space
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  clouds of H&HE gas clump together growing more massive and eventually igniting forming the first stars
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  9 billion years after the big bang (4.8 billion yrs ago) the sun was formed (same way as stars)
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  4.5 billion years ago our earth formed from a cloud of dust that had been orbiting the sun
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  10 billion years after the big bang the earliest living thing formed on earth