Synopsis

The prevailing theory holds that the Big Bang marks the origin of the universe and the commencement of time itself. Yet, what traces can we find of this ultimate beginning? And is it possible to glimpse what lay prior to the universe’s birth? Using breathtaking animation derived from space telescope imagery, NOVA journeys to the dawn of cosmic history, exploring nascent galaxies ablaze with energetic blue stars that ignited mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. Before this epoch