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It all started with a Big Bang...

The origins of the universe

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Actually, there is no reason either to go to your local theatre or to leave this galaxy for another one far away if you want to know what happened a long time ago in our universe. You can travel back in time and space to the microseconds following the Big Bang, with the answers found by DOE nuclear physicists working at our National Laboratories and universities.

The Big Bang

Everything we know in the universe – planets, people, stars, galaxies, gravity, matter and antimatter, energy and dark energy – all date from the cataclysmic Big Bang. While it was over in fractions of a second, a region of space the size of a single proton vastly expanded to form the beginnings of our universe.

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(noun) Astrophile is known as a person who loves the stars and everything to do with astronomy. Consider them amateur astronomists.  (via wordsnquotes)

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NASA’S NEW SPACE TOURISM POSTERS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD

1975 NASA concept art by Don Davis takes us to a future space colony in the form of a “Stanford torus” that can house tens of thousands of humans. It was first proposed in a 1975 NASA study at Stanford University where experts gathered to speculate on designs for future space habitats. Using centrifugal force, a doughnut-shaped torus structure that is 1.8 km in diameter could rotate once per minute to provide between 0.9g and 1.0g of artificial gravity on the inside of the outer ring. A system of mirrors would direct sunlight to the interior to make it the well-lit paradise you see here. (NASA)