''The Cosmic Calendar''
"A Journey Through the Evolution of the Universe and Life on Earth" The Big bang The History of the universe is a long and complex one, spanning over billions of years. However, one of the most significant events that kickstarted this cosmic journey was the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.77 billion Earth years ago. To put this into perspective, if we consider the Big Bang to have happened at midnight on January 1, then we are now at midnight on December 31 of the Same year. During the first few months after the Big Bang, the universe was a chaotic and rapidly expanding place. Elementary particles were forming and colling, and the first galaxies were starting to take shape. By March, the Milky Way Galaxy, which includes our own solar system, had formed. Each Bright spots in this image is a galaxy on it self In August, our sun and the other planets in our solar system began to form. And by September, the first known life had appeared in the form of unicellular organisms. Th...