• Life of a bright star
• Death of a bright star
• Age of the Universe
• Time for the Earth to go once around the Sun
• Time for Jupiter to go once around the Sun
• Time for light to travel from another galaxy to us
• Time for light to travel from a distant quasar to us
• Time since the great dinosaur extinction event
• Time for the Sun to go once around the Galaxy
• Life of a human being
• Age of human beings (first Homo sapiens)
• Time for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth
• Time for light to travel from the Sun to the nearest star

• 65 million years

Supernova remnants mark the graveyards of dead stars; some passing from the Main Sequence into obscurity in the blink of an eye (a mere 50 million years). [X-ray (NASA/CXC/ESO/F. Vogt et al.); Optical (ESO/VLT/MUSE & NASA/STScI)]

Work together with your three closest neighbors, for one minute.

• Sort the last five times (age of Universe, life of a bright star, great dinosaur extinction, light from quasar to us, Sun around Milky Way) from shortest to longest.

• How could a telescope be used to determine each of these timescales?