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Exploring the Universe: A Conversation with NASA’s Michelle Thaller

Everyday Better with Leah Smart

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The History of the Universe

The universe only has one way to make these atoms and that's by fusion reactions inside stars. So when we look with the web telescope, we look so far away that we're seeing the universe as it was. Right now the web telescope is looking back to a time about 400 million years after the Big Bang. But when you look back that far, there really isn't much of the stuff that makes us up.

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