The most fundamental question of modern cosmology: "What exactly are
the origin, future, and general nature of the universe?", is still largely
unknown.
For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have take the
little information available to them and formulated theories which attempt
to explain the nature of the objects they saw in the heavens. Over the last
seventy years developments in technology have resulted in great increase in
available data, forcing a reworking of many theories. Currently, the most
widely accepted theory suggest that the universe came into being through a
cataclysmic explosion now referred to as The Big Bang.