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    Galaxy Watches can now tell the time on different planets

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    Last updated: April 2nd, 2024 at 15:45 UTC+02:00

    Samsung has launched a new watch face for Galaxy Watch users who like to look up to the sky and wonder about our solar system. Samsung is doing justice to the ‘Galaxy' moniker with the release of this new watch face, which was developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).

    This new release for Galaxy Watches allows wearers to obtain real-time information about the solar system. Each planet rotates around its axis and the sun at a different rate than Earth. And even though the passage of time, as a fourth dimension, is relatively the same across our solar system, each planet has different day and year lengths compared to Earth, depending on how slow or fast they rotate relative to our home planet.

    This new watch face puts all that into perspective. It tells Galaxy Watch users their ‘Earth time' but can also display information about the individual rhythms of neighboring planets.

    Know what time it is on other planets Galaxy Time

    In its recent announcement, Samsung says the new watch face, called Galaxy Time, achieves a high level of precision thanks to the collaboration with ESA and its measurements.

    Galaxy Time can show information about the eight planets rotating around the sun, from Mercury to Neptune and every other in-between, including Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

    Each planet has its own dial that shows time running faster or slower relative to our 24-hour system. In addition, the watch face provides extra information such as distances from Earth or the Sun to neighboring planets, how many moons they have, and their planetary seasons and exact positions in the solar system.

    Samsung says Galaxy Time is compatible with every Galaxy Watch running Wear OS, which means the Galaxy Watch 4 series or newer. The watch face reportedly hit the Google Play Store on March 31, but availability might differ by region.

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