The Universe
Time
Primordial Era
Stelliferous Era
The Big Bang
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
Hadron Epoch
Lepton Epoch
Photon Epoch
Recombination
Dark Ages
Pre-Stellar Epoch
Population III Epoch
Reionisation Epoch
Peak Star-Formation Epoch
Declining Star-Formation Epoch
Red-Dwarf Dominance Epoch
The Universe
Time
Primordial Era
Stelliferous Era
The Big Bang
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
Hadron Epoch
Lepton Epoch
Photon Epoch
Recombination
Dark Ages
Pre-Stellar Epoch
Population III Epoch
Reionisation Epoch
Peak Star-Formation Epoch
Declining Star-Formation Epoch
Red-Dwarf Dominance Epoch
The Universe
Time
Primordial Era
Stelliferous Era
The Big Bang
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
Hadron Epoch
Lepton Epoch
Photon Epoch
Recombination
Dark Ages
Pre-Stellar Epoch
Population III Epoch
Reionisation Epoch
Peak Star-Formation Epoch
Declining Star-Formation Epoch
Red-Dwarf Dominance Epoch

Reionisation Epoch

Ultraviolet light from early stars reionises cosmic hydrogen.

Reionisation Epoch

The reionisation epoch was the period when the first stars and galaxies emitted enough high-energy light to reionise the hydrogen gas filling the universe. After the long “dark age,” this radiation cleared the fog-like neutral gas, making the universe transparent to light and allowing modern cosmic structures to form fully.

By Harleah Fonteyn 5/12/25

[frame]: cosmic stella epochs

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