The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to the current understanding of physical cosmology. In this model, the earliest stage that is supported by obs
The NASA diagram shows the history of the universe from inflation until the present.
Artist's impression of the first stars, 400 million years after the Big Bang
The Hubble Ultra Deep Fields often feature galaxies that are examples of what the early Stelliferous Era was like.
Another Hubble image shows an infant galaxy forming nearby, which means this happened very recently on the cosmological timescale. This shows that new galaxy formation in the universe is still occurring.
The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an early state of high density and temperature. Various cosmological models based on the Big Bang concept explain a broa
Chronology of the universe
…energy that was responsible for it was converted into particles and radiation, heating up the universe into a very hot and dense state, initiating the Big Bang. At some early stage, baryogenesis produced a small excess of matter over antimatter. Most matter and antimatter particles annihilated each other in…
Timeline of the expansion of the universe, where space is represented schematically at each time by circular sections. On the left, the dramatic expansion of inflation; at the center, the expansion accelerates (artist's concept; neither time nor size are to scale).
Panoramic view of the entire near-infrared sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Galaxies are color-coded by redshift.
Abell 2744 galaxy cluster – Hubble Frontier Fields view
XDF size compared to the size of the Moon (XDF is the small box to the left of, and nearly below, the Moon) – several thousand galaxies, each consisting of billions of stars, are in this small view.