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  2. Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science. In this visualization, the Big Bang took place at the beginning of January 1 at midnight, and the ...

  3. Astronomy Picture of the Day - Wikipedia

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    Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). It reads: "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer." [1] The photograph does not necessarily correspond to a celestial event on the exact ...

  4. List of future astronomical events - Wikipedia

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    Beginning of the 16th century in the Islamic calendar. 76 2100, March 1 First century non-leap year since 1900. 76 2100, March 14 On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar), the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7, this will be the first time in ...

  5. Astronomical clock - Wikipedia

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    The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio was a complex astronomical clock built between 1348 and 1364 in Padova, Italy, by the doctor and clock-maker Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio. The Astrarium had seven faces and 107 moving gears; it showed the positions of the sun, the moon and the five planets then known, as well as religious feast days.

  6. Chronology of the universe - Wikipedia

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    The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology. Research published in 2015 estimates the earliest stages of the universe's existence as taking place 13.8 billion years ago, with an uncertainty of around 21 million years at the 68% confidence level. [1]

  7. Galactic year - Wikipedia

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    Galactic year. The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. [1] One galactic year is approximately 225 million Earth years. [2] The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its ...

  8. Graphical timeline of the universe - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that this article be merged into Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death. (Discuss) Proposed since February 2024. This more-than-20-billion-year timeline of our universe shows the best estimates of major events from the universe's beginning to anticipated future events. Zero on the scale is the present day.

  9. Ephemeris - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ ɪ ˈ f ɛ m ə r ə s /; pl. ephemerides / ˌ ɛ f ə ˈ m ɛ r ə d iː z /; from Latin ephemeris 'diary' and Greek ἐφημερίς (ephemeris) 'diary, journal') [1] [2] [3] is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects as well as artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and ...