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It's a hifalutin title, but that's what this feature
offers—in a capsule version, of course. Our time line
stretches from the big bang some 10 to 20 billion years ago to
the time 10100 years in the future when even black
holes, the last surviving remnants of the universe as we know
it, will have disappeared. Along the way you'll learn of how
the early inflationary period led to the birth of stars and
galaxies, then, many billions of years from now, to the end of
same, including, of course, our own sun and Milky Way.
Finally, an incomprehensibly long time after we're gone, two
eras tap out the final death throes of the universe: the
so-called degenerate and dark eras. Ready to give it a whirl?
Click on the image at
left.
This interactive originally appeared in a slightly different
form on NOVA's
Runaway Universe Web site.
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