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.
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DateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:55.786 till:200TimeAxis = format:yyyy orientation:verticalScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:60ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:56
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TextData = fontsize:M pos:(250,75) text:"Photon epoch" pos:(260,657) text:"ZOOM IN" pos:(107,1645) text:"NEXT" pos:(65,1630) text:"The Degenerate Era" pos:(65,250) text:"The Primordial Era" pos:(85,235) text:"PREVIOUS"
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width:165 bar:Era mark:(line,white) align:center shift:(0,0) from:80 till:140 color:era2 text:"The Stelliferous Era" from:140 till:200 color:era1 from:55.786 till:80 color:era1
width:55 bar:Dummy2 bar:Dummy3
width:165 bar:Periods align:center shift:(0,0) mark:(line,white) from:55.786 till:80 color:period1 text:"Dark Ages" from:80 till:90 color:period2 text:"Reionization" from:98 till:99.6 color:period1 text:"Formation of the Milky Way~galactic disk" shift:(0,2) from:99.6 till:102.2 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: 55.786 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: 87.78 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:99.6 text:"9.1 billion years Formation of Earth~and Sun" at:101.4 mark:(line,magenta) text:"13.7 billion years, the present day"
at:102.8 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:"100 trillion years. 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,purple)The scale is
10 x log10\{t\}
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10 x log10\{10,000,000,000\}=10 x 10=100