Cosmogony, also spelled as cosmogeny, or cosmogenesis, is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe.
The Sumerian tablet containing parts of the Eridu Genesis
The Creation of the Four Elements as published by Holland in 1589 from Ovid's book: Metamorphoses
The representation of the Universe as rooted in Serer religion and Cosmogony
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
Cosmogony
…evolution of the Solar System. or sometimes the formation of galaxies. The standard cosmological model of the early development of the universe is the Big Bang theory, but it is based on a model known to fail at the very earliest times. Thus modern cosmogony is not generally a consequence of modern cosmology…
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.