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The Big Bang
13.8 billion years ago the universe began as a tiny, hot, dense point which rapidly expanded. -
Basic Elements Form
3 seconds after the big bang, basic elements (H, He) nuclei form -
Matter Era
300,000 years after the big bang, matter finally emerges in the form of hydrogen and helium atoms. -
First Stars & Galaxies
300 million years after the Big Bang, the H and He gas condensed and formed the first stars. -
Our Sun Forms
9 billion years after the Big Bang (4.8 billion years ago) our star formed. -
Radiation Era
10,000 years after the big bang, most of the universe was radiation- raw energy. -
Earth Forms
8.3 billion years after the Big Bang our little planet formed. (4.5 Ba) -
Earliest Life
10 billion years after the Big Bang the first microscope life formed.