The Big Bang is when many think the universe started and timeitself began. But what clues can we discover about thisultimate genesis of everything? And can we ever know whatexisted before the Universe's birthday? With stunning animationbased on space telescope images, NOVA explores infant galaxiesfilled with violent blue stars that formed just a few hundredmillion years after the Big Bang. Before that—before thecoming of visible light itself—stretch the "cosmic DarkAges." But scientists haven't stopped there; instead, they'vecome up with an incredible theory for what happened billionthsof a billionth of a second from the universe's birth. Ifthey're right, we're on the brink of understanding more thanwe could ever have hoped about our cosmic origins.
