Helge Kragh

Science Fun Fact #2

If the Universe’s history were compressed into a year, recorded human history would comprise the last 13 seconds

If the history...

Science is ambitious. And among its most ambitious goals is seeking to understand the origin and evolution of the entire universe. All the more impressive is that, using precision observations from telescopes both on Earth and in space, science has made great strides toward finding answers to those big questions. These observations show that everything we see began as an extremely hot and dense soup of elementary particles, some 13.7 billion years ago.read more