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By The Washington Post / The Bulletin
December 11, 2011
The history of the universe thus far: There’s a big bang. Matter inflates into nothingness, billowing clouds of gas. A dollop of it coalesces; a star is born. Then another and another and another, becoming uncountable billions. Stars fall into galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Soon enough,....