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The document summarizes the key steps in the formation and evolution of the universe according to the Big Bang theory over 10 easy steps. It begins with the universe as a very hot, dense state over 13.8 billion years ago. It then describes how the universe rapidly expanded and cooled, allowing light elements to form within the first 3 minutes. Over billions of years, gravity caused gas and dust to collapse to form the first stars and galaxies. The solar system, including the Earth, formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud of gas and dust. The document also briefly discusses Edwin Hubble's discoveries about the expansion of the universe and competing theories like the steady state theory.

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Earth Science Reviewer

The document summarizes the key steps in the formation and evolution of the universe according to the Big Bang theory over 10 easy steps. It begins with the universe as a very hot, dense state over 13.8 billion years ago. It then describes how the universe rapidly expanded and cooled, allowing light elements to form within the first 3 minutes. Over billions of years, gravity caused gas and dust to collapse to form the first stars and galaxies. The solar system, including the Earth, formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud of gas and dust. The document also briefly discusses Edwin Hubble's discoveries about the expansion of the universe and competing theories like the steady state theory.

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Earth Science Reviewer Week 1 and 2

Different theories/stories about the origin of understand the properties of the


the universe early universe.

• Myths Step 7: Birth of the –


• The Creation estimated to have been born after 9
billion years after the Big Bang,
• Scientific theories, like Big
Bang Theory making it 4.6 billion years old.
: scientists think the sun and
Big Bang Theory in 10
the rest of our solar system was
Easy Steps formed from a giant rotating cloud
of gas and dust > known as the
▪ Still a theory. .
▪ Explosion = Expansion
Step 8: in the 1960s and 1970s,
Belgian Priest- astronomers began thinking that
astronomer. Physics there might be more mass in the
Professor
universe than what is visible >
known
▪ Proposed by Georges
Step 9: 1920s, Edwin Hubble made a
Henri Edouard
Lemaitre. revolutionary discovery.
▪ He called the universe as
Cosmic egg, the single ▪ An American
primordial particle. astronomer.
*Big Bang is not an explosion, instead it is ▪ Pioneer of the
an expansion. distant stars.
▪ Hubble’s Law
Step 1: The universe was born as a ▪ Hubble’s constant
very hot, dense, ▪ Hubble’s Telescope
He said that
Step 2: When the universe was very
young, it grew and doubled in size
at least 90 times. As it expanded, Step 10: there are still enduring
the universe cooled, and matter questions that remain unanswered.
found.
Step 3: Light chemical elements
were created within first 3 Fred Hoyle
minutes. Protons and neutrons - English
collided enough to form deuterium Astrophysicist
(- isotope of hydrogen.) Much of - Cosmologist
this deuterium combined to make - Contributed to the
helium. stellar
nucleosynthesis.
Step 4: .
- Published two papers
: the light was unleased is on steady-state
detectable today in the form of cosmology.
radiation from the CMB. - Coiled the Big Bang
theory.
: there is no present of life
or whatsoever. ➢ Proposed the Steady-State Theory

Step 5: .
According to this
: the universe became theory, the universe has
transparent. no beginning and no end.
The
universe
: Clumps of gas collapsed is
enough to form stars ang galaxies. constant
but
Step 6: Astronomers combed the still
expand.
universe looking for the most far-
flung and oldest galaxies to
Earth Science Reviewer Week 1 and 2

Formation of the
Solar System

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