The Early Universe
When did the first stars form? And how did they assemble to form the earliest galaxies? We shall look at what happened during the 'dark ages' that span the period between the Big Bang and the first galaxies,
and see how the very early Universe came to resemble the one we see around us now.
Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science, astrophysicist researcher, lecturer and academic based at the Institute of Astronomy and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
(from gresham.ac.uk)
| The Early Universe |
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