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 $10\; imes\; log\_\{10\}\; year$. Example one million years is $10\; imes\; log\_\{10\}\; 1000000\; =\; 10\; imes\; 6\; =\; 60$.

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DateFormat = yyyyPeriod = from:56 till:200TimeAxis = format:yyyy orientation:verticalScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:60ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:56

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width:165 bar:Era mark:(line,white) align:center shift:(0,0) from:60 till:140 color:era2 text:"The Stelliferous Era"

width:55 bar:Dummy2 bar:Dummy3

width:165 bar:Periods align:center shift:(0,0) mark:(line,white) from:56 till:80 color:period1 text:"Dark Ages" from:80 till:90 color:period2 text:"Reionization" from:98 till:100 color:period1 text:"Formation of the Milky Way~galactic disk" shift:(0,2) from:100 till:102 color:period2 text:"Life on Earth" from:190 till:200 color:period1

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width:55 mark:(line,purple) textcolor:black fontsize:M bar:Events color:events align:left shift:(30,-4)

at: 56 text:"379,000 years: Hydrogen and helium nuclei ~capture electrons to form stable atoms. Photons ~are no longer able to interact strongly with atoms. ~Cosmic microwave background radiation forms." shift:(30,-15) at: 60 text:"One million years" at: 80 text:"100 million years. First star began to shine." at: 88 text:"600 million years ~Formation of the first galaxy" at: 90 text:"One billion years" at: 96 text:"4 billion years ~earliest Population I stars" at:100 text:"9.1 billion years Formation of Earth~and Sun" at:101 mark:(line,magenta) text:"13.7 billion years, this present day"
# at:102 shift:(30,10) text:"16.7 billion years Collision of Milky Way and~Andromeda galaxies" at:103 shift:(30,0) text:"19.1 billion years. Sun becomes a red giant ~and shortly thereafter a White dwarf" at:120 text:"One trillion years" at:140 text:"Formation of new stars ceases.~Stars cease to fuse. " at:150 text:"One quadrillion years. ~Solar systems no longer exist. Planets flung ~out of orbit or consumed by larger bodies.~Sun has become a~Black Dwarf." at:180 text:"One quintillion years" at:195 text:"Galaxies no longer exist. Stars flung out of orbit ~or consumed by black holes." mark:(line,white)

ee also

* Heat death of the universe
* List of other end scenarios than Heat Death
* Ultimate fate of the Universe
* Future of an expanding universe
* 1 E19 s and more
* Second law of thermodynamics
* Cyclic model
* Dyson's eternal intelligence
* Final anthropic principle
* The Last Question, a short story by Isaac Asimov which considers the inevitable oncome of heat death in the universe and how it may be reversed.
* Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death. This timeline uses the double-logarithmic scale for comparison with the graphical timeline included in this article.
* Graphical timeline of our universe. This timeline uses the more intuitive linear time, for comparison with this article.
* Graphical timeline of the Big Bang
* Big Bang