Timeline of the Universe, From the Big Bang to the Death of Our Sun

Don’t know much about history? How about the future? A new infographic by graphic designer Martin Vargic portrays both past and forthcoming events in our Universe, from the Big Bang to the death of our Sun. The graphic is color-coded and shows “significant events in cosmic and natural history.” It also illustrates how briefly humanity has been part of the scene.

Fun future events are when Earth’s day will become 25 hours long (Earth’s rotation is slowing down), and the amazingly distant time when the Solar System finally completes one orbit around the galactic core.

The full infographic is below, and be prepared to give your scroll wheel a workout. This thing is huge, but very comprehensive for covering about 23.8 billion years!

Vargic also has created free apps of this timeline available (links to Android and iOS) which enable “anyone to explore the past and future of the world in a swift, clean and coherent fashion.”

We recently featured Vargic’s visualization of exoplanets. He’s also done a very cool Map of the Internet, a map of how the the constellations have changed over time and visualization of the Moon replaced with other bodies, as well as a wide variety of other maps and infographics. You can check out his work on his website, Halcyon Maps. He puts out new graphics each week.

Without further ado, here is the history — and future — of the Universe: