the

Universe
And our

Solar system
The
universe

o ur universe began with an explosion of space itself. the big bang.

T he big bang theory describes how the universe expanded from an initiAL
STATE OF HIGH DENSITY AND TEMPERATURE. IT IS THE PREVAILING
COSMOLOGICAL MODEL EXPLAINING THE EVOLUTION OF THE
OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE FROM THE EARLIEST KNOWN PERIODS
THROUGH ITS SUBSEQUENT LARGE-SCALE FORM.

T HE BIG BANG WAS THE MOMENT 13.8 BILLION YEARS AGO

WHEN THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS A TINY, DENSE, FIREBALL THAT
EXPLODED. STARTING FROM THE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY AND
TEMPERATURE, SPACE EXPANDED, THE UNIVERSE COOLED, AND THE
SIMPLEST ELEMENTS FORMED. GRAVITY GRADUALLY DREW
MATTER TOGETHER

TO FORM THE FIRST STARS AND

THE FIRST GALAXIES.
G ALAXIES COLLECTED INTO GROUPS,

CLUSTERS AND
SUPERCLUSTERS.

S OME OF STARS DIED IN SUPERNOVE EXPLOSIONS, WHOSE

CHEMICAL REMNANTS SEEDED NEW GENEREATIONS OF STARS AND
ENABLED THE FORMATION OF ROCKY PLANETS. ON AT LEAST ON
SUCH PLANET, LIFE EVOLVED TO CONSCIOUSNESS. AND IT WONDERS,
“ WHERE DID I COME FROM”.