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  2. Galactic Empire (Asimov) - Wikipedia

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    The Empire is spread across the Milky Way galaxy and consists of almost 25 million planets settled exclusively by humans. For over 12 millennia the seat of imperial authority was located on the ecumenopolis of Trantor , whose population exceeded 40 billion, [3] until it was sacked in the year 12,328.

  3. StarCraft (video game) - Wikipedia

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    StarCraft is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The first installment of the video game series of the same name, it was released in 1998. A Classic Mac OS version was released in 1999, and a Nintendo 64 port co-developed with Mass Media and published by Nintendo was released ...

  4. Galactic year - Wikipedia

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    Galactic year. The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. [1] One galactic year is approximately 225 million Earth years. [2] The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its ...

  5. Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    Cosmic Calendar. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science . In this visualization, the Big Bang took place at the beginning of January 1 at ...

  6. Kardashev scale - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Wikidata item; ... Race; Climate; Space exploration; Universe; ... (which corresponds to the estimated number of stars in the Milky Way) in 5,800 ...

  7. Gaia Sky - Wikipedia

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    Gaia Sky is an open-source astronomy visualisation desktop and VR program with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS.It is created and developed by Toni Sagristà Sellés in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to create a billion-star multi-dimensional map of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).

  8. List of oldest stars - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Wikidata item; ... The age of the oldest known stars approaches the age of the universe, ... Milky Way bulge: J175021.86-414627.1: 13.2 or more ~0.8

  9. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a D 25 isophotal diameter estimated at 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years), but only about 1,000 light-years thick at the spiral arms (more at the bulge).