THE FORMATION OF THE UNIVERSE

COSMIC BACKGROUND
 This Image shows the Cosmic Microwave Radiation Bacground, a faint heat radiation that emanates from all points int the sky, It is thought to be left over from the fireball-like conditions prevalent in the early Universe

WHEN WE LOOK TODAY at rocks and minerals, and at the planet Earth formed from them, it is hard for us to image a time when none of this existed - a time even before there were chemical elements, the building blocks from which rocks and minerals are made. Yet between 13,000 and 15,000 million years ago, Then, in an instant, the Big Bang set in motion a chain of events that resulted in the creation of atoms and, over millions of years, in the formation of galaxies and stars. It was only within stars that the elements were formed that would make minerals, rocks, and planet