1. The BIG BANG!!!!!

2. Our Universe What it is like, how it started, how it evolved to its current state, and how it will end Today we will talk about:

4. Where do we live?

5. Where is the Earth?

6. The Solar System

7. Q: What is a STAR?

9. Our Sun is a star !

11. What is this?

12. What is it made of?

14. MANY STARS

15. MANY STARS SOME SUN-LIKE

17. You are here!

19. Our Galaxy from the Earth

21. Galaxies: Hubble Space telescope image

22. ‘ Zoom out’ - galaxies form filaments and voids

24. IN THE BEGINNING…….

25. EVERYTHING!

26. EVERYTHING!

27. EVERYTHING! ENERGY INCREASING, BECOMING LIKE A BOMB……. STARTS EXPANDING…..

28. Tick tick tick……

29. BOOM!

32. COSMIC ‘SOUP’

33. PROTON NEUTRON ELECTRON COSMIC ‘SOUP’

36. Universe is now a GAS

37. Universe is now a GAS HYDROGEN HELIUM

39. GRAVITY!

42. But we are inside one of these galaxies, so all we see are the nearby stars. We can see other galaxies if we use a telescope If we could view the Universe from outside, if would look like this:

43. The Gemini Telescope

48. THE END