Is Gallifrey a real planet?

Gallifrey (/ˈɡælɪfreɪ/) is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the original home world of the Time Lords, the civilisation to which the main protagonist, the Doctor belongs. It is located in a binary star system 250 million light years from Earth.
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Is there a planet like Gallifrey?

The discovery of "Gallifrey" was first reported in January but the full study report has just been published in the journal Science. The new system has been named Kepler 47 and has two stars circling each other every 7.5 days.
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What galaxy is Gallifrey in?

The Seriphia Galaxy, also designated Galaxy 17A53, was a galaxy neighbouring the one that contained Gallifrey. It was four times the size of the Milky Way and home to over six hundred billion stars.
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Is Gallifrey bigger than Earth?

We now know that the radius of Gallifrey is 1.577e7 meters, or roughly 2.47 times the radius of Earth.
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Is Kasterborous a real constellation?

Therefore, we can assume that, at some point between 1995 and 3999, the constellations of Earth are renamed. They include Kasterborous, Mir (Mission to the Unknown), Canthares (Image of the Fendahl), Skytha (The Ribos Operation) and Cetes (possibly Cetus, Vengeance on Varos).
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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How long is a Gallifreyan year?

So 237 Gallifreyan Years is equal to 209 Earth Years. This means one Earth Year is 1.133971291866 Gallifreyan Years.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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What do you call a female Time Lord?

As last year's Christmas Special revealed, Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has taken on the role of the Thirteenth Doctor – and we couldn't be more excited for her adventures starting later this year. But some fans slightly baulked at a female Time Lord, or Time Lady if you will.
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Is everyone from Gallifrey a Time Lord?

The basic idea is that all natives of Gallifrey are Gallifreyans, but only those who pass through the Time Lord Academy are Time Lords. That includes everyone from technicians to the President.
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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Is the Doctor Gallifreyan?

The Doctor is no longer from Gallifrey

She's found as a child on a planet far from Gallifrey, though it's implied that even this remote world is not her true home and that she actually arrived from somewhere else via the Boundary, a gateway to other parts of the universe. So the Doctor is not Gallifreyan.
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Is davros a Time Lord?

Born into war

The Time Lords placed Davros's life up to his apparent death at the hands of the Daleks as concurrent to Earth's ancient history, prior to the 2nd century.
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Why can't Doctor Who say his name?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.
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What did the Doctor whisper to River?

On The Wedding of River Song he whispers, "Look into my eye." and then lies and says that he just told her his name. That's when River realized that what he whispered to her when they first met was his name.
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What is the Doctor's Gallifreyan name?

Is Theta Sigma the Doctor's real name? Theta Sigma was the Doctor's unique nickname when he was studying at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey. Although this identified the Doctor from all the other Time Lords at the academy, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) dismisses it as just a nickname in The Happiness Patrol.
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Is River a Time Lord?

No. River Song is not a Time Lord. The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance.
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Why does the Tardis not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Are Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels being disgraced Time Lords creates a classic Doctor Who time travel paradox - the Time Lord punishment was inspired by the Weeping Angels, but the Weeping Angels were created by the Time Lords' punishment.
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What is the Doctor's actual age?

Before the Eleventh Doctor's 200-year farewell tour between TV: The God Complex and Closing Time, the writers of the 2005 revival of the series explicitly described the Doctor as around 900 years old, despite contrary statements on TV and expanded media.
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Do all Gallifreyans have two hearts?

This question seems to be based on the idea that if the Timeless Child is from some other race, and we know that Gallifreyans/Time Lords have two hearts, it's therefore a coincidence that the Timeless Child/Doctor has two hearts too. But it's really not. There are a multitude of possibilities here, so take your pick.
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Is the Doctor the last time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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Who burned Gallifrey?

Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor managed to eventually find his way home, but the 2-part premiere of season 12 (now under the leadership of Chris Chibnall) changed the game again, revealing Gallifrey had been destroyed by the Master in anger after he found out the secret of the Timeless Child.
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