Science & Reason: tinyurl.com Our Galaxy, The Milky Way -Best of Carl Sagan's Cosmos (Part 4). --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S "COSMOS": 1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect: www.youtube.com 2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity: www.youtube.com 3) The Realm Of The Galaxies: www.youtube.com 4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way: www.youtube.com 5) Our Solar System: www.youtube.com 6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model: www.youtube.com 7) The Library Of Alexandria: www.youtube.com 8) A Short History Of The Universe: www.youtube.com 9) Artificial And Natural Selection: www.youtube.com 10) The Cosmic Year: www.youtube.com 11) Tree Of Life - 4 Billion Years Of Evolution: www.youtube.com 12) The Miracle Of Life: www.youtube.com 13) DNA - The Common Basis Of Life: www.youtube.com 14) Abiogenesis The Origin Of Life: www.youtube.com 15) Astronomy vs Astrology: www.youtube.com 16) Pictures In The Sky: www.youtube.com 17) Ancient Astronomy: www.youtube.com 18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition: www.youtube.com 19) The Mysterious Tonguska Event: www.youtube.com --- The Milky Way Galaxy, commonly referred to as just the Milky Way, or sometimes simply as the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which our Solar System is located. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies. It is one of billions of galaxies <b>...</b>

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The secrets of our home galaxy revealed with all new state oif the art computer recreations from JPL and NASA.

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This video I made in After Effects. Camera starts above sears(Willis) tower and ends above Scutum-Centaurus arm at the milky way galaxy. "A Look To The Past." provided by Benn Jordan With The Exception of Jupiter and earth, all images were created with photoshop and mapped with Adobe After Effects. Hope you Injoy, maps of the chicago land area took about a week to composite.

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Watch this and other space videos at SpaceRip.com From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole. From a distance, our galaxy would look something like this. A flat spiral, some 100000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxy's center. That center -- bulging up and out of the galactic disk -- is tightly packed with stars. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of this so-called "bulge." And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important...something strange... is going on in there. The first to take notice was the physicist Karl Jansky back in the 1930s. He was asked by his employer, Bell Telephone Labs, to investigate sources of static that might interfere with what it saw as the killer app of its time... radio voice transmissions. Using this ungainly radio receiver... Jansky methodically <b>...</b>

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www.facebook.com ... Science@ESA Vodcast (Episode 6, Part 1): Charting the Milky Way - Mapping the Galaxy - from Hipparcos to Gaia. In this sixth episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes discovers the motions of the stars, learns how astronomers measure their distances and looks at the new European mission that will really get to grips with our place in the Universe. --- Please SUBSCRIBE to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- ESA Hipparcos Mission Hipparcos, a European mission, pinpointed the positions of more than one hundred thousand stars to high precision, and more than one million stars to lesser precision. Hipparcos turned slowly on its axis and repeatedly scanned right around the sky at different angles. It measured angles between widely separated stars, and recorded their brightness, which were often variable from one visit to the next. Each star selected for study was visited about 100 times over four years. • www.esa.int • sci.esa.int --- ESA Gaia Mission Gaia is a mission that will conduct a census of one thousand million stars in our Galaxy. It will monitor each of its target stars about 70 times over a five-year period, precisely charting their positions, distances, movements, and changes in brightness. It is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new celestial objects, such as extra-solar planets and failed stars called brown dwarfs. Within our own Solar System, Gaia should also identify tens of <b>...</b>

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For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists from the University of Zurich present the world´s first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy together with astronomers from the University of California at Santa Cruz. The new results were partly calculated on the computer of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) and show, for instance, that there has to be stars on the outer edge of the Milky Way. credit: University of Zurich source: www.mediadesk.uzh.ch

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View NASA images of earth, her solar system of planets, the moon and sun. Awesome nebulae and galaxies in our universe including: The Andromeda Galaxy, Milky Way Galaxy, Galaxia Sombrero Galaxy, Planets and Asteroids Circling Two Suns, Magellanic Clouds, Cygnus Loop, Eagle Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, The Orion Nebula, The Helix Nebula, The Alnitak Region of the Orion Nebula. See NASA photos of The Sun, The Moon, The Planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

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April 28, 2012 Andromeda Council www.andromedacouncil.com Reptilian Agenda thwarted - Milky Way Galaxy Catastrophe, Year 2370. Approximately 360+ years into the future. Attempted conversion & transformation. The 'bigger galactic picture' of why the Reptilians have been here on Earth, and on twenty (20) other planets, two (2) of which are very much like Earth. And their long term conversion plans for the human planets of the Milky Way galaxy. Until the people of the Andromeda Council stepped in a few years ago... and derailed that agenda. You can also find the written transcript for this interview on page 1. of the Andromeda Council web site: www.andromedacouncil.com, mid-left hand side in the section called: "News Reports & Interview Transcripts". Instructions to read &/or download are easy to follow. Look for this report under this title: "Reptilian Agenda - Milky Way Galaxy Catastrophe, Year 2370". www.andromeadcouncil.com

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Special thanks to Alex Cherney for providing the footage. www.youtube.com www.terrastro.com Please subscribe,comment and like! www.youtube.com The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy 100000-120000 light-years in diameter containing 200--400 billion stars. The galaxy is estimated to contain at least as many planets, 10 billion of which could be located in the habitable zone of their parent star. Depending on its structure the entire galaxy has a rotational rate of once every 15 to 50 million years. The galaxy is also moving at a velocity of 552 to 630 km per second, depending on the relative frame of reference. It is estimated to be about 13.2 billion years old, nearly as old as the Universe.

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Deep inside the Milky Way Galaxy there are Planets that resembles our own. -------- Image Info ------------- Zoom into the Sagittarius area of the nighttime sky, where Hubble looked into our Milky Way galaxy for extrasolar planets. The camera then zooms all the way into our galaxy's central bulge, where the view dissolves into an artist's interpretation of one of the orbiting planet candidates. God Is Great .

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Watch this and other space videos at SpaceRip.com Here's what will happen in about 10 million years when a huge cloud collapses onto a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course! In about 3 billion years, the two galaxies will collide. Then over a span of 1 billion years or so after a very complex gravitational dance, they will merge to form an elliptical galaxy.

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Enjoy the our Home in the Universe with the Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy... music by Enya and Enigma... videomix by Felix Studios

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A good comparison of our milky way galaxy with other galaxies! Credits: "How the universe works" (This video is just for education purposes and to induce interest about Our Universe in people)

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From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole. From a distance, our galaxy would look something like this. A flat spiral, some 100000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxy's center. That center -- bulging up and out of the galactic disk -- is tightly packed with stars. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of this so-called "bulge." And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important...something strange... is going on in there. The first to take notice was the physicist Karl Jansky back in the 1930s. He was asked by his employer, Bell Telephone Labs, to investigate sources of static that might interfere with what it saw as the killer app of its time... radio voice transmissions. Using this ungainly radio receiver... Jansky methodically scanned the airwaves. He documented thunderstorms <b>...</b>

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Dr. Mark J. Reid, Senior Radio Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been involved in research that has recently determined that the Milky Way is actually much bigger than previously thought. SkyScrapers, North Scituate, Rhode Island www.theskyscrapers.org May 1, 2009

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With the release of dozens of images showing how galaxies collide with each other, astronomers are piecing together details of how mega-galaxies form. Our nearest galaxy neighbor, Andromeda, will be colliding with our own Milky Way in about 5 billion years.

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The Milky Way Galaxy, our space home. 3DS Max model, made from the set of particle systems. Model file is available for purchase here: bit.ly Music is "Slow to react" (C)Nazar Annagurban (public domain license).

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A voyage 500 light years across the Milky Way Galaxy arriving at a 7-Planet Solar System including an Earth-like planet that is 274% larger than Earth with 5 Moons, in orbit of a Brown Dwarf Star that is 64% smaller than the Sun and has rings similar to those of Saturn. Help to make the USA and our World a better place Please DONATE to IDV8atl www.paypal.com

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Video about the Milky Way as seen from Earth by the megatelescopes of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The first part of this video shows the central part of our Milky Way Galaxy, starting with images in the visible spectrum, and then when the sequence closes in on the centre it shifts to VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) infrared images and penetrates most of the dust revealing huge numbers of hidden stars. In the second part follows a sequence where the VISTA infrared view of the region of the Galactic Centre is scanned. The third part is a zoom sequence that starts with a view of the central parts of the Milky Way Galaxy and works inwards and towards the Arches Cluster, buried deep beyond the dust clouds, then follows a transition from visible to near-infrared observations. The fourth and last part shows a sequence that uses an 800-million-pixel, 360-degree panoramic image featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), it moves towards the Galactic Centre, and then across the Galactic Plane that runs horizontally through the image. First and second parts motion pictures made by ESO / VISTA / S. Guisard and the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit; third and fourth parts made by ESO / S. Brunier, P. Espinoza, S. Guisard, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and A. Fujii. ALL MOTION IMAGESRELEASED BY ESO UNDER AN ATTRIBUTION-UNPORTED 3.0 CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE. Music <b>...</b>

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This is a simulation about the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy collision. Will mankind survive this collision? A simulation of the University of Toronto.

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Massive Star in the Milky way Galaxy ----- Image Info ----------- The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 in Sagittarius, about 8000 light-years away from Earth. Some of the stars in this cluster are extremely massive and emit intense ultraviolet radiation. The brightest object in the picture is designated Pismis 24-1. It was once thought to weigh as much as 200 to 300 solar masses. This would not only have made it by far the most massive known star in the galaxy, but would have put it considerably above the currently believed upper mass limit of about 150 solar masses for individual stars. However, high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images of the star show that it is really two stars orbiting one another. They are estimated to each be 100 solar masses. The Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys images were taken in April 2006. God Is Great .

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From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole.

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Our galaxy, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course. In about 3 billion years, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide. But don't worry about a collision. At around that time the sun collapses into a white dwarf, perhaps destroying the Earth in the process.

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Andromeda/Milchstraße Kollision Diese Animation simuliert den Zusammenstoß der Milchstraße mit der Andromeda-Galaxie, der in ungefähr 3 Milliarden Jahren erfolgen wird. Unsere Milchstraße, sowie die Andromeda-Galaxie besitzen jeweis über 100 Milliarden Sterne und ähneln sich in Form und Größe. Auch wenn der Titel den destruktiven Ausdruck "Kollision" beinhaltet, kollidieren die Sterene nicht wirklich miteinander, die Abstände sind einfach zu groß. Beide Spiralförmigen Galaxien werden innerhalb von 5 Milliarden Jahren zu einer elliptischen Galaxie verschmolzen sein. 1 Sekunde ~ 1 Millionen Jahren. Abstand vom Beobachter ~ 10000 Lichtjahre (94.605.280.000.000.000 Km) Ich habe diese Animation mit "Universe Sandbox" und diversen anderen Programmen erstellt.

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This simulations follows the formation of a galaxy like our own. It assumes a Cold Dark Matter Universe. The movie shows the distribution of gas and stars from after the Big bang to the present time. Every second corresponds to 70 million years and the frame is 500.000 light years across.

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Starting with a view of our Milky Way galaxy, the orange gas in the animation represents the interstellar medium. The bow shock is created because the heliosphere is moving through like a boat through the water, crashing through the interstellar gases. The bow shock in front of the moving heliosphere is similar to the one observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Click for animation. Credit: NASA/Walt Feimer

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The Milky Way has several companions in the form of globular star clusters and satellite galaxies. Some of the Milky Way's globular clusters and halo stars may have come originally from satellite galaxies - so not all the stars you see in the night sky started out in our Galaxy. Find out more about Astronomy Research at Swinburne: astronomy.swinburne.edu.au

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This looks at our galaxy and compares its size to the size of the largest known galaxy. Also comparing some others in-between, such as Andromeda, our closet neighbouring galaxy. This clip was taken from the show 'How The Universe works'

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sizes and scales of the univers cannot be emagined but viewed. its a collection of some of our most beautiful objects in space,, it shows: a random comet, orion nebula, spiral galaxy messier 81, our galaxy milkyway, and at last earth!! softwares used: 3ds max, plugin: krakatoa music: solar fields, overload plz enjoy :)

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A quick spaceship ride from earth out to the edge of our milky way galaxy and beyond into intergalactic space. If the HD video is blurry or jumpy the firefox addon called DownloadHelper can let you locate the mp4 full definition video file. Or try the latest internet explorer 8. Or type this after the youtube url to get different video quality versions: 854x480 &fmt=35 FLV 640x480 &fmt=34 FLV 1280x720 &fmt=22 MP4 480x360 &fmt=18 MP4 176x144 &fmt=17 3GP 176x144 &fmt=13 3GP smallest 480x360 &fmt=6 FLV 320x240 &fmt=5 FLV So for example if you want the smallest but blurriest video to watch then type &fmt=13 after the youtube url. Hi Definition version &fmt=22 By permission and thanks to Celestia software. "Celestia-ED educational software and add-ons courtesy of Frank Gregorio Visit Celestia-ED at gregs-educational.info"

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Complete video at: fora.tv UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor Chung-Pei Ma shows how spiral galaxies occasionally merge with one another, which, she says, will eventually happen to our own Milky Way Galaxy when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy. ----- This program was recorded at the 12th Annual Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. Wonderfest's broad goals are best described by its mission statement: Through public discourse about provocative scientific questions, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning. Wonderfest achieves these ends by presenting series of scientific events to the general public. At most of these events, pairs of articulate and accomplished researchers discuss and debate compelling questions at the edge of scientific understanding. - Wonderfest Chung-Pei Ma is a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley.

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All night time-lapse video of sky over Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Stars, constellations, meteors and satellites can be seen passing overhead for most of the evening. The video ends with the bright galactic core of the Milky Way rising above the horizon and overhead. Higher resolution videos and astrophotographs at: www.wlcastleman.com

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Watch this and other space videos at SpaceRip.com From NASA, here's a vivid look at the future of our Milky Way in an ultra high-end computer simulation of spiral galaxies colliding. Collisions and mergers are central to galaxy evolution, from the earliest dwarf galaxies that formed to the familiar galaxies we see today. These collisions in action will be targets for the James Webb Telescope. Astronomers hope to understand how the shape, structure and chemical content of galaxies change over the sweep of cosmic history.

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Dr Robert Piccioni answers the question "Will the Andromeda Galaxy consume our Milky Way?" and adds that we may have other things to worry about instead. blog: cosmosguide.blogspot.com website: www.guidetothecosmos.com

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The center of our Milky Way Galaxy, located about 27000 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, is occupied by a supermassive black hole. This black hole contains over 4 million times the mass of our Sun in an area smaller than half the orbit of Mercury. Matter accreting into the black hole is heated up to millions of degrees, which makes the area shine bright in radio and infrared waves. This radio source is called Sagittarius A*; the black hole itself cannot be seen. en.wikipedia.org Over the past 16 years, astronomers have tracked a full orbit of a star, S2, around the black hole. At it's closest point (perinigricon), S2 comes to within 17 light-hours of the black hole. From studying the Keplerian motions of S2 and other stars near the Galactic Center, astronomers have determined that these stars must be under the influence of an enormously massive, compact object. The only celestial object that could meet those requirements is a black hole. A huge black hole. This video begins with a picture showing the central 3 light years (central parsec) of our Galaxy. It then goes into a full zoom from our viewpoint to the Galactic Center, then shows the orbits of various stars around the black hole. Credit: ESO apod.nasa.gov

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