A 30-minute explosion changed everything.

30 minutes turned into a few million years. And stars emerged.

One interstellar furnace, a few supernovas and 8 more billion years, and we had a universe that looks like the one we know today.

Space junk started sticking together.

One star in particular spat out a LOT of junk.

The star become our sun

One of those pieces of junk is our Earth

As the crust of the earth hardened jets of water welcomed to possibility of life.

Lightning struck the Earth's cloud of methane, raining chemicals down on the organic soup.

The chemical treat inspired a molecule called to nucleic acid to make copies of itself.

One day, more than 3 billion years ago, some lucky cell discovered chlorophyll.

New cells breathed oxygen and ate plants - the first animal cells!!

Plant and animal cells clustered together in colonies.

Before long, the world had worms!

Teams of nucleic acid ganged up into chromosomes

Even today, our cells contain tiny mitochondria with their own genetic materials from that time.