{"product_id":"cosmic-calendar-print","title":"The Cosmic Calendar Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe whole 13.8-billion-year history of the universe, squeezed into a single calendar year. The Big Bang happens at midnight on 1 January, and today is the stroke of midnight on 31 December. On that scale one day is 37.8 million years and one second is 437 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sun and Earth don't form until 2 September. The dinosaurs arrive on Christmas Day and are gone by 30 December. Our own species appears at 23:48 on New Year's Eve, and all of recorded history fits into the last 11.4 seconds. Two zoomed-in timelines show December day by day and the final minutes of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery date is calculated from the age of the universe measured by the Planck satellite (13.787 billion years), and each event's age is checked against at least two sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter an idea popularised by Carl Sagan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseum-quality matte paper, printed on demand. Frame not included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSources\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanck Collaboration (2020) for the age of the universe; NASA and ESA for the first atoms; NASA\/ESA Webb (JADES-GS-z14-0) for early galaxies; ESA Gaia for the Milky Way's thick disc; Madau \u0026amp; Dickinson (2014) for the peak of star formation; AMNH and USGS for the ages of the Solar System and Earth; Djokic et al. (2017) for early life; NASA Astrobiology for the Great Oxidation Event; Gibson et al. (2018) for \u003cem\u003eBangiomorpha\u003c\/em\u003e; the International Commission on Stratigraphy chart (2024) for the Cambrian, the Great Dying and the end of the dinosaurs; the Natural History Museum for the first dinosaurs and early \u003cem\u003eHomo\u003c\/em\u003e; Hublin et al. (2017) for early \u003cem\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/em\u003e; NASA and Royal Museums Greenwich for Galileo and Apollo 11.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wizard Wonders","offers":[{"title":"A3 (29.7 × 42 cm)","offer_id":53919669944656,"sku":"WW-COSMIC-A3","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42 × 59.4 cm)","offer_id":53919669977424,"sku":"WW-COSMIC-A2","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/8579\/3872\/files\/cosmic-calendar-print_1.jpg?v=1794110425","url":"https:\/\/thewizardwonders.com\/products\/cosmic-calendar-print","provider":"Wizard Wonders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}