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Universe Timeline

 
Stargazing people in shadow
Stargazing people in shadow

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Cometary history

They used to be discovered perhaps once every ten years; now, telescopes have taken us into a new era in cometary history.

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A brief history of asteroids

The Celestial Police set themselves the task of finding the "missing" planet between Mars and Jupiter. Our asteroid history explains what they found instead...

A timeline of the development of the Universe

From Big Bang to Big Crunch, explore the history of our universe with our interactive timeline. You can stop off at any point from the earliest seconds, to the emptiness of the Dark Era in the far future.

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Content last updated: 13/01/2005

 
 
 

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