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Galactic year

Unit of time

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The galactic year provides a convenient medial unit for depicting cosmic and geological time periods together. By contrast, a "billion-year" scale does not allow for useful discrimination between geologic events, and a "million-year" scale requires some rather large numbers.

Timeline of the universe and Earth's history in galactic years

The following list assumes that one galactic year is 225 million years.

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