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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    single seconds (1 das = 10 s) 6 das: One minute (min), the time it takes a second hand to cycle around a clock face 10 2: hectosecond hs minutes (1 hs = 1 min 40 s = 100 s) 2 hs (3 min 20 s): The average length of the most popular YouTube videos as of January 2017 [15] 5.55 hs (9 min 12 s): The longest videos in the above study

  4. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    The record for most time in space is held by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who has spent 1,111 days in space over five missions. He broke the record of Gennady Padalka on 4 February 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC during his fifth spaceflight aboard Soyuz MS-24 / 25 for a one year long-duration mission on the ISS . [ 21 ]

  5. Millisecond - Wikipedia

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    To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times between 10 −3 seconds and 10 0 seconds (1 millisecond and one second).

  6. Shenzhou 5 - Wikipedia

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    Shenzhou 5 (Chinese: 神舟五号; pinyin: Shénzhōu Wǔ Hào, see § Etymology) was the first human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program, launched on 15 October 2003. The Shenzhou spacecraft was launched on a Long March 2F launch vehicle.

  7. Spacetime - Wikipedia

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    The constant , the speed of light, converts time units (like seconds) into space units (like meters). The squared interval Δ s 2 {\displaystyle \Delta s^{2}} is a measure of separation between events A and B that are time separated and in addition space separated either because there are two separate objects undergoing events, or because a ...

  8. This Radio Pulse From Space Lasts Three Seconds ... - AOL

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    The pulse lasts 1,000 times longer than other neutron star signals. Researchers guess it probably originates from the star’s powerful magnetic field.

  9. Light-second - Wikipedia

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    The light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics.It is defined as the distance that light travels in free space in one second, and is equal to exactly 299 792 458 m (approximately 983 571 055 ft or 186 282 miles).