The universe is really old (at least millions of years) and mostly unchanging.

The universe began several thousand years ago and then changed into its present state.

The universe began billions of years ago with a big bang

The universe had no beginning, it always existed and always was pretty much as it is now.

An expanding universe

A shrinking universe

A static (unchanging) universe

A multiverse

The universe used to be much bigger than it is now

The whole universe was once all condensed into one incredibly dense and hot point

The universe hasn't changed since it started

The universe didn't have a beginning

as it was in the past, the number of lightyears distant it is from us.

As the star is right now but redshifted

As it will be in the future

Really bright and white in color

The redshifted light from the beginning of the universe, only now reaching us

Dangerous and should be avoided

The evidence that the universe has always been as it is now

NOT something predicted by the big bang theory

Ratios of Hydrogen and Helium in the universe

Sizes and shapes of largest structures in the cosmos

Life on earth evolved from dinosaurs

Our sun will one day be swallowed up by a black hole