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Galactic Year

The time when the solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way
The Galaxy Year (GY), also known as the cosmic year, is solar system stay track Up winding Galactic center One week's revolution, estimate Between 225 million and 250 million "Earth years".
Chinese name
Galactic Year
Alias
Cosmic year
Abbreviation
GY
Interpretation
Around the center of the Milky Way revolution Week-long time

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Compared with the Milky Way Year earth Year (the time interval when the earth orbits the sun once) and month( Moon The time interval of circling the earth in orbit) can be explained by providing a more "understandable" unit universe And geological age. In contrast, the scale of "one billion years" is too large for geology, and "one million years" is too small, which will show a considerable number.

Historical chronology

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This chronology starts from solar system The birth of is considered to be the 20th year of the Milky Way.
4 GY: earth The ocean appears
5 GY: biological appearance
6 GY: prokaryote appear
7 GY: bacterial appearance
10 GY: appearance of stable land
13 GY: Eukaryote appear
17.8 GY: Cambrian Explosion
19 GY: mass extinction