Once upon a time, there was nothing. Just emptiness until...

There was a big BANG!

Everything was hot and gassy, perfect for making stars over millions of years. They're still being made, even today and that's because the Big Bang is still powering the universe! It is still pushing everything away from each other, making the older galaxies and stars move to the rim of the universe. It also left behind some radiation, which scientists can still see today.

This is one of those older galaxies, called Quasars!

One star the Big Bang made was the eye of Taurus or Aldebaran for short. It's a pretty red giant with a class of K5, which means that it's typically brighter and more long-lived than the sun. It has a magnitude going from 0.75 and 0.95, and a luminosity at ‎439±17 L☉. It was made by gas and dust in an area getting bigger and bigger until it eventually started clumping together like milk gone bad. Those clumps, unlike milk, made protostars which eventually became stars and sometimes even planets.