Graphical timeline of the Stelliferous Era
This is the timeline of the Stelliferous era but also partly charts the Primordial era, and charts more of the Degenerate era of the Heat Death scenario.
The scale is 10 × log10year. Example one million years is 10 × log101000000 = 10 × 6 = 60.
- Matter Domination
- 10*log year
- The Degenerate Era
- The Primordial Era
- The Primordial Era
- The Stelliferous Era
- The Degenerate Era
- The Primordial Dark Age
- Reionization
- Life on Earth
- 372,000 to 387,000 years - Hydrogen nuclei ~capture electrons to form stable atoms. Photons ~are no longer able to interact strongly with atoms. ~Cosmic microwave background radiation forms.
- One million years
- 100 million years. First star began to shine.
- 600 million years ~Formation of the first galaxy
- One billion years
- 4 billion years ~earliest Population I stars
- 8.7 billion years ~Formation of the Sun
- 9.2 billion years ~Formation of the Earth
- 13.7 billion years, this present day
- 16.7 billion years Collision of Milky Way and ~Andromeda galaxies
- 18.7 billion years. Sun becomes a red giant ~and shortly thereafter a White dwarf
- 200 billion years. The Sun dies down
- One trillion years
- Formation of new stars ceases. The last stars die ~down.
- One quadrillion years. ~Solar systems no longer exist. Planets flung ~out of orbit or consumed by larger bodies.
- Galaxies no longer exist. Stars flung out of orbit ~or consumed by larger bodies as black holes.
See also
- Graphical timeline of our universe. This timeline uses the more intuitive linear time, for comparison with this article.
- Timeline of the Big Bang
- Graphical timeline of the Big Bang
- Heat death of the universe
- Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death