The history of the cosmos

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[The relation of cosmology and human history is that dissipation of the original Big Bang creates structures that make possible the emergence of human life and determine the probability of its possible outcomes.]

A Picture Worth a Thousand Answers: Scientists Capture Best Image Ever of Universe's Beginning
By Rob Stein, Washington Post, Wednesday 12 February 2003. A powerful satellite has captured the best picture ever taken of the infant universe, an image so detailed that scientists said it answers some of the most important questions about the cosmos, including when it was born and how it will probably die.
Technology Offers View of Early Universe
By Curt Suplee, Washington Post, Thursday 27 April 2000. Astronomers have obtained the first detailed images of the universe as it was nearly 15 billion years ago, long before stars or galaxies had begun to form. Primordial background radiation reveals the super-faint ripples that were the first seeds of the structure of the cosmos.
Survey Offers Glimpses Into Nascent Universe
By Kathy Sawyer, Washington Post, Monday 23 June 2003. Rare snapshots of the growing universe are some of the initial findings from the broadest in-depth survey ever conducted of the evolution of the largest cosmic building blocks—galaxies. This is the first time that the cosmic tale of how galaxies build themselves has been traced reliably to such early time.