What is the Big-Model?
The big-bang theory proposes that the universe expanded from a highly compressed state.
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NARRATOR: The universe is formed of an incalculable number of stars contained within billions of galaxies. This enormous amount of matter and energy originated a little less than 15 billion years ago, when a powerful explosion occurred, the big bang. This primordial explosion released an immeasurable amount of energy, which very rapidly was transformed into grains of matter. The matter gradually became organized as the universe cooled. After 300,000 years, the first hydrogen and helium atoms appeared. It took another billion years for the atoms to group together and form clouds of gas, stars, and galaxies.
Nine billion years later, billions of galaxies existed in the universe. Within one of these galaxies, our solar system was born.
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NARRATOR: The universe is formed of an incalculable number of stars contained within billions of galaxies. This enormous amount of matter and energy originated a little less than 15 billion years ago, when a powerful explosion occurred, the big bang. This primordial explosion released an immeasurable amount of energy, which very rapidly was transformed into grains of matter. The matter gradually became organized as the universe cooled. After 300,000 years, the first hydrogen and helium atoms appeared. It took another billion years for the atoms to group together and form clouds of gas, stars, and galaxies.
Nine billion years later, billions of galaxies existed in the universe. Within one of these galaxies, our solar system was born.
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