"By looking at and understanding the properties of El Gordo, we're able to understand the time evolutionof the structure formation of the Universe, " Prof Hughes told BBC News.
From the Big Bang to the present and forward into the future, Space gives a vision of the birth, evolution and end of the phenomena that make up the universe as never seen before.
Some human rights activists warned that "insults to believers" might include the teaching of Darwin's theory ofevolution or the Big Bang theory about the universe.