Who = americans What = cannibalise natives Where = in poor countries When = daily Why = to become more obese How = using dating apps to find their victims
On hot sunny days, and sometimes on very cold days when there isn't much wind and I can feel the heat of the sun acutely, I find myself struck by just how much heat the Sun must be generating.
@@jonathanwilson5585 well, heliocentric is a bit old, the actual models consider the area of the big bang as the "center" of the universe, the place from which all matter is moving away. the center of expansion. distance calculations are simple. if you deny it, you are the liar...
"Can you hear them? All these people who lived in terror of you and your judgement. All these people who's ancestors devoted and sacrificed themselves to you. Can you hear them singing? Oh, you like to think you're a god, but you're not a god. You're just a parasite eating out the jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and lost and birth and death and joy and sorrow. So, so come on then. Take mine. Take my memories. And I hope you've got a big appetite because I have lived a long life and I have seen a few things. I walked away from the last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and watched as time ran out. Moment by moment until nothing remained -- no time, no space, just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics where devised by the mind of a mad man. I watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze. So come on then! Take it! Take it all, baby! Have it! You have it all!" Doctor Who, the rings of Akaten
There's no sound in space. Thank goodness it cannot travel in space. Imagine if it were, you hear constant boom boom every day. And I bet it's worst than the sound of earth quake if you were ever been in one. That's scary enough.
@@OssxJah IIRC, if we could hear the sun, it would be something like 320 Db, which isn't even a sound anymore, there would just be shockwaves coming out of the sky constantly.
Oh. My. Lord. I am struck numb by the beauty of our own star. I seriously felt like I was orbiting closely around it watching this video. Thank you and thanks to all the brilliant scientists that allowed us all to witness these amazing visuals.
The sun gives off a vibe that it can explode at any second, it is amazing that stars can remain stable for billions of years considering how powerful and chaotic the activity appears to be
It's a self-regulating system. If it gets too hot, it will expand, pressure goes down, fusion slows and it will cool back down, as it does it will contract, the pressure will heat it back and fusion will speed up. This all happens automatically and all at the same time, not in stages.
It's the immovable force vs immovable force "paradox". On the one hand, the violently powerful forces of nuclear fusion want to blow the entire thing apart in dramatic fashion. On the other hand, the incredible mass keeps it all crammed together via gravitation. The fusion process wouldn't even happen without gravity to force it into being. The two forces balance each other, and no explosion or implosion can happen until enough hydrogen has been exhausted to throw it out of balance. If that happens just right, the remaining material collapses inward to the center at insane speeds in an implosion, then reflects off it's own core mass creating the supernova explosion we all know and love. Even for fast burning stars, this takes millions of years. For a star like ours, many more billions before our sun dies out. Even then, our star won't explode because it doesn't have the characteristics to do so. It'll swell to engulf all the innner planets, then wither away to a white dwarf, long long after all evidence we ever existed here is long gone.
@@Kakkarot671 its got nothing to do with being in space or not. It's just realising how tiny and miniscule you are compared to the grand size of the universe. Shows how insignificant of a role you play in the entirety of existence which momentarily breaks you free from the bubble that people live in, where you have a strong sense of self importance
This is not a regular TH-cam video, this is a baffling documentary with amazing imagery supported by well-studied content. Bravo Alex, this is one of you better ones!
@@redblade8160If you cant even summarize another person on what went wrong, then you dont know yourself. This opinion of mine will only change when you decide to elaborate.
To think that Earth is just the right distance from the Sun, so that water stays mostly liquid, and doesn't boil off, or totally freeze through is epic!
@@jhavondenton2850considering there are billions of these stars out there, it’s actually not that surprising that some of the planets around some of those stars are in the right spot… it doesn’t need to be designed that way. It is just chance
@SmokyOle I wonder if God created the endless star systems where there is no life and all the planets orbits are too far away or too close to the sun for life to exist.
I don’t know why but this made me cry. I felt so grateful for the sun itself and the scientists who made it possible for us to see this amazing star up close. I can’t wait to see the eclipse when it comes to Cleveland!!! I’ve never felt so lucky to live here 😂
ALLAH DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN IN DETAIL (((21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?) AND surah zariyat aya 47 ( 51:47 And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. ) AND Yasin aya 38 (yaseen) (And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.) AND surah Anbiya aya 33 (21:33 And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.) AGAIN AND AGAIN, ALLAH WHO CREAT THE UNIVERSE HE DESCRIBED EVERYTHING IN THE QURAN 1400 YEARS AGO. ALLAH SAID (41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) Quran 41:53 Surah Fussilat ayat 53 THERE is STILL A LOT ABOUT UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN.
I know the feeling. I was feeling the same thing. Our beautiful Sun, giver of life and light, our father and mother in many respects. The Sun is amazing. Even though I am not a big fan of those really hot days, I am thankful for our Sun.
@@alikayhanfaizi5823 No, because I know it's pretty easy for a cloud of hydrogen to collapse into a thing such as the sun. Unless you count the Big Bang and gravity, the sun has no creator.
I feel so bad for all the people not interested enough in science and the natural world who will never see this kind of awe inspiring stuff. Beautiful showcase!
@@YOUARESOFT. Because humans are a naturally curious beings. We want to know and we want to understand how things around us work. We do this with nature and with other people too. Understanding the things around us is important because that's how we can answer the question of how things work. As an example: Our star is really calm and not as violent as other stars we have observed in our galaxy. Why is that? Does that contribute in any way to life being formed here? Answering these questions will help us find similar planets to Earth. Not just for ourselves but in a pursuit to find other life. Stars and space are something that have been a part of the human life for as long as we have looked up. Just like the sun and the moon. They influence our cultures and our beliefs. Science and the scientific method is the only way to understand that. There are two types of people who don't care: 1. People who are barely surviving and can't afford to be curious. 2. People who have been brainwashed by religion and refuse to believe anything that isn't mentioned in their religious book. The second group of people are what hold back progress both social and technological. TL;DR Science and understanding nature is important and if you don't care, too bad there's billions more people that do and will progress humanity instead of you.
@@ballistic_buddha it’s ok to be religious , it’s ok to have faith , the afterlife explains this perfectly with nde’s proving that religion most definately plays a roll
I am broken by the thought of showing this to a distant ancestor, and what a descendant would be able to show us from further in the future. This was truly fascinating to watch.
maybe not in HDR unless you like getting blasted by a 1000+ Nit Screen. In SDR which maxes out at 350 Nits, you could watch this video 24/7 365 no problem
I've been an amateur astronomer since I was in my mid teens. I even built my own 16" (406.4mm) reflector in my 20's. I once asked a friend what the closest star to earth was, his immediate answer was Proxima Centauri, when I told him he was incorrect, he bet me $100 that I was dead wrong about what I thought the closest star was. I agreed, and he asked me what I thought the closest star to earth was, and when I said The Sun... he just stood there staring at me. Then called me an asshole and paid the bet.
@@ElainCorrine hahaha I can imagine. Btw, how did you make your 16" telescope? Where did you get plans? Was it by some old gray astro enthusiast? Long time ago I was into it also, and I watched his series but now can't found it. ☹️
That is such a cult sci fi classic that captured me as a young man.... the whole tension and special effects was spell binding - I did not quite understand the ending - cube spinning into the sun... gravity was messed up ... yet actors still standing on surface of square ion bomb?
If you ever feel too important, just remind yourself that 99.9% of the universe is just spheres of plasma at scales you can’t even possibly imagine, and you’re just floating on a tiny speck of dust in a practically endless empty void. On a cosmic scale we’re so small and unimportant that we may as well not even exist at all. It’s pretty humbling
@@TerriblePerfection stuff still exists when you’re not there. A tree falling in a forest when no one is around still makes a sound, and two stars colliding on the other end of the universe make a sound too even if no living thing will ever hear it. Sound is just a shockwave that travels through molecules it doesn’t need an observer for it to exist. Same goes for light and color, they’re just wavelengths of energy that continue to exist even when no one is looking at them. The world doesn’t revolve around us and what we observe. Were such an infinitesimally small part of the universe that what we can observe doesn’t even matter, our entire planet could be destroyed in a second by an asteroid or a stray planet or even a tiny rock if it was traveling fast enough through space, and the entire universe would continue on exactly as it is. Nothing would change. We are meaningless compared to the scale of the universe. Of course you can still choose to live a life that has meaning to you and those around you, that’s all that really matters because that’s all we can really control. We can have meaning within our tiny little world, but on a cosmic scale we’re so small that there’s absolutely nothing we could ever achieve in the entire lifespan of the universe that would even make a difference. Again it’s just humbling. We shouldn’t take what we have for granted because it could all be taken away in an instant and there would be almost no evidence that we ever existed at all. So we should value every day that we still continue to exist.
@@lukestarkiller1470 I take nothing for granted, and am filled with wonder and awe still, at 68. But I disagree that the universe exists without "us" ; we are it, and it is "us." One thing. Non-dual. Things like achievement and meaning are human concepts, not the underlying reality. 🍁
Have you watched the film Sunshine? Highly recommended if you are into science fiction and find our Sun fascinating. I proimse you'll never look at it the same again
@@osasunaitorit's a good rec! i watched it years ago, cilian murphy is just amazing. but overall, i don't think the movie had 2 hours worth of sun porn xD
@@alveolate you are right, it's not just visual but more of an immersive experience. The images, the music, the implications that the Sun has throughout the whole film give you a profound feeling of awe and majesty
@@barnucles r/whoosh .... What are you on about? They were pointing out that Astrum doesn't live in the US so posted on Thanksgiving because for him it's not a holiday.
Didn't even feel like 18 minutes. That's how engaging this was! Also, so glad Astrum used kilometers/second in that one measurement. Now those are units for space!
It is perspective shifting, isn't it? As the other two commenters have said, the sun is life's battery. It is the first thing that life eats (plants) which then allows life to eat _itself_. The sun looks as beautiful and brutally fearsome as the life it fuels
@@djIIaSh Solar winds are not made of air. The earth is also surrounded by vacuum. But gravity keeps air stuck to the massive planet. The sun as way more gravity than the earth so if it was just normal air it would not be in a vacuum either. Hope that helps.
Like duh. Most the cells in your body are human cells, but they all live off your energy. Life eats life. Energy transfers. Everything is cyclical and fractal. How is this not taught in 1st grade?
@@1237barca buddy even those tiny cells cant live without sun photosyntesis, theres no cycle if theres no energy source, hence he said its crazy without the sun, there will be no life
I’m only about 7 minutes in but I’m such a lover of astronomy. I’m so, so glad you touched on how long it takes photons to actually escape the sun. Such a neat fact so many people don’t know. Gaines a new subscriber with this!
I'm glad it takes tens or hundreds of thousands of years for a photon to go from the furnace of the interior to its 8 minute and 20 second trip to Earth. Every photon of light that touches us started out as a gamma-ray photon. It loses so much energy during its anfractuous journey to the Sun's surface, that by the time it escapes it's mainly a visible light photon (with some UV, IR, etc as well).
These Astrum documentaries are so engaging. As a keen night skywatcher (but someone with not much math or physics) I struggle sometimes to comprehend the nuts and bolts of the universe but look forward to every new upload and I always feel a little less stupid for having watched them. They reward repeated viewing too. My favourites are the one on Neptune (sooo much information from one fly-by), the New Horizons mission (just WOW) and the longer piece about the Spirit and Opportunity missions on Mars. Nourishing stuff. Please continue.
Like you say the 'nuts and bolts' are truly incomprehensible. Mass, which makes up all we can see, at it's core is made from an invisible, massless force that can create movement within space, to see this mass another massless, but visible force is required and this force propagates through a massless and invisible entity that is space, of which light will propagate for eternity. What are these forces, what is this medium that allows propagation and a primary force to become mass, of which light force will now find interference, but even with all of this being completely unknown, why does any of it even exist in the first place, why do this forces exist, why does this space medium exist, is it all finite, is it infinite. If space is finite, what exists outside of the boundary, if it's infinite, then it's just impossible to comprehend how could that be. It's all so completely incredible, and I truly wonder if humans will ever know the answers...
i hate to be THAT guy preaching in comment sections but everytime i see patterns like this and it always makes me think about some sort of great designer of the universe (like a god). but everyone is entitled to their own idea its just something i think about sometimes😊
@KainSlanders God the Amighty is real. God of Abraham is the same God of Noah, and Moses. The same God that sent Jesus to be born from a virgin. The only One who can do miracles as such.
Patterns or maybe, just maybe, things tend to follow the same laws of gravity, physics and chemistry no matter where they go, because that's how the universe works. It's almost like the universe, on its own, could have made us and the Sun, because it had eons of time to do it.
@@bashthedad9938 Your god and messiah are simply rip offs of previously worshipped deities and religions. I’m willing to bet you know little to nothing about the foundation and historical context of Christianity/Catholicism. You probably just repeat the same brain numbing phrases that the man at the church tells you to say. Much easier than thinking for yourself.
What I find *mind-blowing* is we are not just seeing the majesty of our sun, the mother of our planetary system, the giver of life, we are peering into the enigmatic engines of the cosmos. We're getting a small but powerful glimpse into the workings of _every_ star. 🌟✴⭐✴🌟
I’m not saying this for attention or for pity, but it’s extremely frustrating being dumb, as in I literally can’t remember any information, but I’ve always been so interested in watching, listening and reading about space. I just can’t absorb, or just recall the info. I’ve had this problem my entire life. I watch and read so much, but forget it all. And I struggle to comprehend things, and I can’t problem solve to save my life. I listen to my favourite song a hundred times and still stuff up the lyrics in the same spot each time when singing along. Just want to slam my head against a wall. Sorry to vent, I’m just so intrigued and passionate about space but not smart enough to take it in and understand.
I think you're not giving yourself enough credit for the things that you _do_ know. If you're even slightly passionate about a field or topic, including things like music or video games, and can talk to someone about it, then you've already absorbed enough information to be better educated in it than someone else. I think all you need to is to avoid any self-fulfilling prophecies by becoming your best friend and coach, and give yourself time to learn better ways to study or retain information. No one can learn an entire subject in a day. You're not stupid.
4:47 nice smiley face. Reminds me of the time stop episode of star trek the next generation where pocard gets all silly and draws a smiley face on the gas escaping from the warp core
I've always been amazed that something as common yet so majestic as a star is sitting in our backyard. It is, however, by necessity as we all know. Still, how incredible. It's very hard to resist staring directly into it. Something so far away yet so large and hot that it burns our skin and blinds us from many millions of miles away.
Actually a really beautiful way of looking at it. We learn about stars in school when growing up, reading about all the different types and learning the names of ones we’ve observed, watching all these documentaries and seeing images/models of those so far away, imagining what might be orbiting around them … but I’ve never really stopped to think about how we have one right here next to us at all times - so up close and personal. It’s _our_ star, and it’s so full of life. It is the reason we’re here, yet we so casually take it for granted every day.
Sunspots are such an interesting activity to see, and the fact that they typically last long enough they are well catalogued, named, and mapped also blows my mind. That structures like this remain stable on a something so highly energetic and chaotic long enough to study them in detail over the course of sometimes months; puts them right up there with the Polar Storms we've found on gas and ice giants, and the great spots on gas and ice giants for me.
This is some of the most beautiful footage I have ever seen, thank you for sharing this with us, and all of the extremely interesting facts! Great video!
I appreciate your explanation of the time lapse. So many films of the sun are at this hyper speed, without that footnote, I was beginning to think that coronal activity at the scale and speeds portrayed must be near 100 thousand miles per second!
Haha yeah... All these highly sped up bits of astronomical footage should come with a little footnote saying "* Not nearly this exciting in real time."
@@riot2136 ALLAH DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN IN DETAIL (((21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?) AND surah zariyat aya 47 ( 51:47 And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. ) AND Yasin aya 38 (yaseen) (And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.) AND surah Anbiya aya 33 (21:33 And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.) AGAIN AND AGAIN, ALLAH WHO CREAT THE UNIVERSE HE DESCRIBED EVERYTHING IN THE QURAN 1400 YEARS AGO. ALLAH SAID (41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) Quran 41:53 Surah Fussilat ayat 53 THERE is STILL A LOT ABOUT UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN.
Allahs creation is outstanding. I am just speechless looking at the details of sun and then knowing its just a speck in the space and there are 1000 times bigger stars. Absolutely stunning
Imagine the first realization that the sun was a star similar to all the lights we saw at night back in the day....seeing the milky way and the billions of points of light knowing our sun was only one of them...that expansion of concept must have been brutal for the mind and soul....it was probably the most gutting feeling in all of human history that has never been fully understood, to feel "astronomically" smaller than previously considered, pun intended
Then you look further and realize that some of those points of light are actually galaxies with billions of stars in them. That wasn't fully realized until 99 years ago, so not long ago.
the reason it gets hotter the farther away you get from the surface is because as the atoms leave the surface they release(heat) stored energy thus giving you hotter areas than the surface.
This is absolutely amazing 🌞 🔥 What an amazing journey into the Sun. This is a wild beast, but not the wildest I'm terms of the universe. Just simply amazing. Thanks for sharing this epic video 👏🏼
Bravo. This has to have had some of the best videos of the sun collected in one place I have ever had the joy of watching. Also a lovely explanation as to the processes that make those videos. Keep up the good work.
The Sun is very difficult to get details with ultraviolet light. Yet It's still Impossible to find more details about it's Core Interior considering on how powerful our current technology to get an closeup of It's Radiative Zone and it's Core with visible or nonvisible lights
Very interesting, thank you! I was especially fascinated by the granules. They're hypnotic & I could watch them for quite a while. I also just ordered my glasses for the eclipse! I'm so excited to see one!
I feel lucky to be alive in this era with such advanced technology. I just really appreciate being able to see so much of our galaxy in amazing and clear detail… …the universe is truly a thing of indescribable beauty.
This channel is the best TH-cam channel about the universe BY FAR. It is informative yet comprehensible, beautiful to watch but most of all, we can all feel Alex's deep love for this subject in every single video. Thank so much. 🤩💫🔭🌘🌕🌞🪐🌎🌌
The natural nuclear fusion reactor in our solar system is remarkably well-behaved, and I'm really grateful for that! These images are gorgeous. It's hard to wrap my mind around the scale of even the small features.
@@darkmatter1152Yup, and thanks to the massive size and distance of the sun, it's all pretty well-contained. All this stuff that would be astonishingly hard to control in a reactor here on earth just works in the sun, because it doesn't have to be controlled. Occasionally lady Sol gets spicy and spits at us, and we're all waiting for when she lands a hit, but otherwise we have a pretty laid back fusion reactor that's more or less safe from this distance. And given those constant petaton explosions, that's wild!
I love him so much, what an incredible mystery and so familiar to us human !! Without him, nothing exits here... Beautiful video, thanks a lot.I will remember: "in the sun nothing is in solid state, nor liquid nor gazeous, it's only plasma, which is 99,9 per cent of our universe!!!!!"
Yeah no. Life is matter animated by energy. Energy by itself would just be that, energy. And matter just by itself would just be matter. It's the combination that makes _life_
Никогда не видел подобного контента. Будто вы представитель общества учёных, изучавших Солнце всё это время. Структура этого, без преувеличения, фильма - очень грамотно продумана. Огромная благодарность за то, что позволили так близко, подробно и так по-разному рассмотреть эту устрашающе великолепную заезду.
Thank you Alex, for this wonderful video. I remember vividly when I was a kid, and getting interested in the Solar System when Voyager passed Jupiter and we on Earth got the first highly detailed images. My father and I watched everything they broadcast (I do particularly remember a "Horizon" special, with Carl Sagan and a Soviet scientist discussing the results. 1979 I think. I was a young kid, but I've never lost that excitement - Jupiter became my "favourite" planet, and I thought Arthur C. Clarke's idea of it becoming a sun, with its own little "Jovian System" was an amazing idea. Sorry, I'm waffling! This was a wonderful video. I watch most of your vids, and today I was in a lot of pain (I'm disabled, and suffer constant chronic pain) so I've trawled more TH-cam than usual, and this video about The Sun just really reignited (pun?) my excitement again - as do most of your content TBH! Take good care, be well, and thanks again for a wonderful look at our little 🌟
You know around a lot of other solar systems Jupiter size planets might be proto-stars. A lot of systems have two suns. A proto star is just like it sounds. Just not enough to go full ignition.
@@brown2889 Thanks for that reply - I wondered about this again, so I checked whether it could ever be possible and the result was exactly as you said: The mass is far too low, and even if we worked out how to drastically increase the mass, we still couldn't "strike the match" as it were! I am very grateful that you took the time to answer me and not be insulting - even if my knowledge of real space is lacking 😀! It would have been easy to do that, and it really does make me think that there are good people who, when you don't know something or understand something that they do, they don't do the "Internet thing" and jump down their throats! I'd like to think that we never stop learning. As an example, when I was a tech writer, I hated the "Dummies Guide" series because of the name. I spent lots of time writing tutorials and step-by-step guides where the jokes were always *on me*. There was lots of self-deprecating humour, how *I* plugged in the wrong cable or screwed the wrong bit first (to illustrate how not to do it). I always would say "NOBODY IS A DUMMY just because they don't know x, y, or z about computers." People are brilliant at their speciality, and I took pains to help as many people "learn through doing", partly as it gives a person a sense of achievement to acquire a new skill, and especially since it was the era when everyone was getting PCs and "experts" were charging them big numbers to fix computers, and I didn't like that at all. So I know a bit about space, but I start to get lost in the numbers. When I start seeing 1.15E10000000x or something, my mind starts blanking. It could be my Autism - for example, I don't have a "mind's eye", or something. But I remember the "2010" book and how Jupiter became a Sun, and it sort of made sense to me. Rarely does science fiction line up with science *fact*! All the very best my friend!
@@bradmiley Thank You! You just made my day Brad. I love thinking about space and all things in it. It actually is calming to me. Don’t worry about those numbers. Just enjoy. I do.
@@brown2889 Thank *you*! I've never worried about how BIG space is, in fact, if you're familiar with Douglas Adams (what a writer - I remember hearing the first Hitch Hikers Guide series and thinking how incredible it was/is back when I was but a young un), they put Zaphod into The Total Perspective Vortex. It's a huuuuuuuuuge map of the galaxy with a tiny, tiny, microscopic dot labelled "You Are Here". This is supposed to destroy people's minds by demonstrating how the worst thing you can have in space is "a sense of proportion". If anything, it makes me feel slightly happier - that our problems, on a solaric, galactic, or universal level are meaningless and unimportant. And when you mix space and time, it makes them even smaller -a kind of "well, in 5 Billion years, the Earth won't even be here anyway!" feeling. Although I talk like that around my wife because that vastness *does* bother her. My father and I didn't get on very well, but where the Venn diagrams did overlap (politics, political dramas/thrillers, space, science, short wave radio, some areas of humour, some areas of music) we would be hyper focused. Those Horizon Specials about Jupiter, and later, Saturn, were incredible. Some would be three hours or so in length and we didn't even want to leave to go to the bathroom (I think this contributed to us getting our first VCR in late 79, possibly!) in case we missed something important. One of the last things I watched with him before he died in 2008 was "Space Odyssey". He started off by saying "You should watch this. I'll show you a few minutes, if you like it I'll run off a copy (he had one of those hybrid PVR/DVD recorder things) for you." I ended up sitting and watching the whole thing with him. I said after "Did I just make you watch that again?" And he replied "Nah. I've watched it about four times already!" *He* got interested in space through an amazing BBC series that he heard on the radio in the 1950s. Called "Journey Into Space", there are three series, although I'm not *that* keen on Series One (they pick on one character too much for my liking) but Series Two "The Red Planet" is amazing, even more so given we hadn't yet so much as chucked a rock into space! If you haven't heard it, you really should, I believe it's on Audible, possibly elsewhere on the Interwebbings, probably not YT (you know what the BBC is like about copyright!) Oh, and James Follett's "Earthsearch" from 1981, again made into a drama by the BBC, that's a great series too. The more "real" a drama was as regards how it approached space for both him and me, the better. The biggest sin was any type of noise/sound. Kubrick made clever use of music or the in-helmet breathing make up for it in "2001". For years, to me, that was the Gold Standard of how to make a great film yet not have to break rules with sound in a vacuum. Crikey I am rambling. I'm going to shut up now. Gone on far too long. But lastly, I love how space affects radio. Sunspots cause incredible ionospheric effects that can bring in signals from much further away than usual. Sporadic E is a radio ham's dream! Propagation, beam steering, HAARP, all fascinating, even if the latter is a bit scary. Okay. Rambled wayyyyy too long. Enjoying talking with you though my friend! Take care, and be well, Brad.
@@bradmiley I think I have heard Journey Into Space. Have not heard Earth search. Kubrick was really good a tension! He could create great visual tension. It’s been great chatting with you. I hope you get better too. God bless.
These structures are so beautiful. I didn't know that they move so fast--that's so wild. The way you can actually see the magnetic and thermal energy and in motion with the high temp spectrums is mind blowing.
Wonderful imagery, Alex - Thank you! But you have made an error at 4:25. The sun is not made from plasma, nor of a gas, but rather collapsed matter in the form of liquid metallic hydrogen. And we can know this with certainty based on some fundamental rules in science. Firstly, a gas or plasma cannot have a surface, and a gas (or plasma) always expands to fill the space available. And in a tall column of gas (such as our atmosphere) we always see a gradual drop off in density as altitude is gained. Secondly, we have wonderful video imagery of liquid being blown from the sun, and falling back onto the sun's surface, creating perfectly circular waves, expanding at exactly the rate waves in liquid metallic hydrogen should expand. 9:38 - Something else to consider about the sun, is that thermodynamics means that as we get further away from a hot body, the temperature decreases according to the cube of the distance. And yet scientists measure the surface of the sun at just thousands of degrees, while the corona reaches well over a million degrees. That means there is a massive source of heat in the sun's corona. What is it? To find out more about the modern theory of what the sun is made from, and how it works, head over to the Sky Scholar channel, run by famous medical imaging expert Pierre Robitaille. He is highly qualified, and most compelling!
Sun ☀ is 2.75 million miles in circumference, 27,000,000°K core with double to tripe digit petatons per second. It's a massive fusion reactor. And helium 3 and hydrogen.
Alex, I would love it if you were to compile some of your videos by subject to be longer single videos. I will still watch all new ones, but then I'd be able to fall asleep to them, too. I'd rather have you make them since it would take me all night to decide what playlist to make 😁
I find it very interesting how Luna covers Sol perfectly, as well the force-field Earth generates for protection. It`s almost like someone planned it all, perfectly. Very enigmatic. Like the Universe is looking for the perfect combination, from molecules, seasons balance to planetary & satellite balance (like Jupiter protecting us), to stars and black holes in a universe and who knows how much deeper, to find a long lasting equilibrium of a myriad of elements, to allow life to thrive, as long as possible. Who knows how many other goldy-locks living beings existed somewhere out there but did not have certain elements like us, which help in the long run to survive. A perfect combination that takes billions of years to effect, with perfect luck elements, and it all leads to life with a chance to thrive. Like a trial & error cauldron of molecules & planets. Billions of trials. For billions of years. Who knows what we might be missing for the even longer road as well?! Is Earth at the center of Universes perfect equation search, for a long lasting life ecosystem? Or is there one out there with a even longer history? It is truly enigmatic & curious.
The sun is fucking crazy. These are spectacular images and videos. Thanks Alex, as always, for your seemless explanations and enthusiasm for space and scientific discovery. You bring the subject directly to us in a format that can be appreciated by the general public. Much love and respect! 💯
Watching this makes you realize just how powerful and immense God is, because there's no ways someone weak could have created such crazy beautiful things that have such large effects on us from a distance
That transition layer is one view I haven't seen before. It looks amazing Reminds me very much of drying dirt with a little sand spread throughout like you'd see around some beaches.
To think its that far away and still has given me some of the worst burns of my life. Its terrifying and awe inspiring.
Who = americans
What = cannibalise natives
Where = in poor countries
When = daily
Why = to become more obese
How = using dating apps to find their victims
On hot sunny days, and sometimes on very cold days when there isn't much wind and I can feel the heat of the sun acutely, I find myself struck by just how much heat the Sun must be generating.
@@weatheranddarknessthat dark spot on the sun is the size of earth...the sun is massive
Uh it’s much closer. And the heliocentric model is a lie.
@@jonathanwilson5585 well, heliocentric is a bit old, the actual models consider the area of the big bang as the "center" of the universe, the place from which all matter is moving away. the center of expansion. distance calculations are simple. if you deny it, you are the liar...
Turns out sun is actually looking like this “🌞” and not just this “🌝”
Apparently when it gets old, it looks like "☁️" but red
Well the second one is the moon
🌄☀️🌞🌟✨🌝🔥
But red ??!!
Did you just assume am not Colorblind ??!
All the 5 year Olds on earth are finally validated. They understood something we didn't
4:45
Look at that warm smile!
Very heart warming.
*literally.*
death
was about to comment on the smiley face until i scrolled down
"You are my sunshine..."
No, your body temperature is regulated in your brain.
@@IndigenousUndergroundPrimate ... are you a vampire? because it sounds like you haven't felt the warming effects of the Sun
4:45 the smile of the sun gives chills 😊
Reminded me of “mr frundles”
"Can you hear them? All these people who lived in terror of you and your judgement. All these people who's ancestors devoted and sacrificed themselves to you. Can you hear them singing? Oh, you like to think you're a god, but you're not a god. You're just a parasite eating out the jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and lost and birth and death and joy and sorrow. So, so come on then. Take mine. Take my memories. And I hope you've got a big appetite because I have lived a long life and I have seen a few things. I walked away from the last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and watched as time ran out. Moment by moment until nothing remained -- no time, no space, just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics where devised by the mind of a mad man. I watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze. So come on then! Take it! Take it all, baby! Have it! You have it all!"
Doctor Who, the rings of Akaten
It looks so cute though
OMG LOOKS LIKE A SLIME FROM SLIME RANCHER
":)"
- The Sun
And the sun is pretty quiet as stars go. Imagine seeing this sort of footage from a more temperamental star, it'd be a sight to behold.
lol from a good, safe distance.....
There's no sound in space. Thank goodness it cannot travel in space. Imagine if it were, you hear constant boom boom every day. And I bet it's worst than the sound of earth quake if you were ever been in one. That's scary enough.
Short term memory. 😅
@@OssxJah IIRC, if we could hear the sun, it would be something like 320 Db, which isn't even a sound anymore, there would just be shockwaves coming out of the sky constantly.
youd be surprised. We have been getting fairly lucky for some time now.
Oh. My. Lord. I am struck numb by the beauty of our own star. I seriously felt like I was orbiting closely around it watching this video. Thank you and thanks to all the brilliant scientists that allowed us all to witness these amazing visuals.
It looks beautiful and angry at the same time.
This hits different today for some reason. I know I've seen it before but wow
This was an incredible episode. The images of the sun we have are awe inspiring. WOW!
Do you think the sun is conscious?
agreed
I even turned on the AC
The sun gives off a vibe that it can explode at any second, it is amazing that stars can remain stable for billions of years considering how powerful and chaotic the activity appears to be
No... it doesn't. 🤦♂️🙄
It won't explode any second 😭😭 omg
It's a self-regulating system. If it gets too hot, it will expand, pressure goes down, fusion slows and it will cool back down, as it does it will contract, the pressure will heat it back and fusion will speed up. This all happens automatically and all at the same time, not in stages.
@@amosbackstrom5366yeah obviously if it's big enough the balance doesn't last long
It's the immovable force vs immovable force "paradox". On the one hand, the violently powerful forces of nuclear fusion want to blow the entire thing apart in dramatic fashion. On the other hand, the incredible mass keeps it all crammed together via gravitation. The fusion process wouldn't even happen without gravity to force it into being. The two forces balance each other, and no explosion or implosion can happen until enough hydrogen has been exhausted to throw it out of balance. If that happens just right, the remaining material collapses inward to the center at insane speeds in an implosion, then reflects off it's own core mass creating the supernova explosion we all know and love. Even for fast burning stars, this takes millions of years. For a star like ours, many more billions before our sun dies out. Even then, our star won't explode because it doesn't have the characteristics to do so. It'll swell to engulf all the innner planets, then wither away to a white dwarf, long long after all evidence we ever existed here is long gone.
I swear, Outer Space videos like this gives me existential crisis.
I just feel awe at the unimaginable scale and temperature.
You’re overthinking it that’s why.
@@Kakkarot671 nope just awareness
@@Original_SniperPro99 definitely over aware then. Y’all think you’ll be out in space ? Highly unlikely
@@Kakkarot671 its got nothing to do with being in space or not. It's just realising how tiny and miniscule you are compared to the grand size of the universe. Shows how insignificant of a role you play in the entirety of existence which momentarily breaks you free from the bubble that people live in, where you have a strong sense of self importance
This is not a regular TH-cam video, this is a baffling documentary with amazing imagery supported by well-studied content. Bravo Alex, this is one of you better ones!
@josvanderspek1403.
This is very much an average TH-cam video. There is disinformation in all of this channel's videos.
@@redblade8160Really? Care to enlighten me?
@@josvanderspek1403
Do your own independent research, and don't just take the word from some TH-cam videos.
@@redblade8160If you cant even summarize another person on what went wrong, then you dont know yourself. This opinion of mine will only change when you decide to elaborate.
@@redblade8160what about just one example of supposed disinformation in this video?
Witnessing a total eclipse is definitely a top 10 experience. Can't wait for the next one
They’re pretty regular . Each year or year and half.
All depends on where you are…
@spiritinflux one going directly over my state won't be til 2040 or so unfortunately
@@RichUniverse_ I need money and have a babby
@@RichUniverse_ Weirdly condescending comment, ngl
@@Singurarity88 I'm not complaining? I have no issues waiting lol
To think that Earth is just the right distance from the Sun, so that water stays mostly liquid, and doesn't boil off, or totally freeze through is epic!
Almost like something very powerful and intelligent is behind this complex system
It's either a simulation or a God clearly something created it.
And people say this all happened unplanned and by chance 😅
@@jhavondenton2850considering there are billions of these stars out there, it’s actually not that surprising that some of the planets around some of those stars are in the right spot… it doesn’t need to be designed that way. It is just chance
@SmokyOle I wonder if God created the endless star systems where there is no life and all the planets orbits are too far away or too close to the sun for life to exist.
I don’t know why but this made me cry. I felt so grateful for the sun itself and the scientists who made it possible for us to see this amazing star up close. I can’t wait to see the eclipse when it comes to Cleveland!!! I’ve never felt so lucky to live here 😂
ALLAH DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN IN DETAIL (((21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?) AND surah zariyat aya 47 ( 51:47 And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.
) AND Yasin aya 38 (yaseen) (And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.) AND surah Anbiya aya 33 (21:33 And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.)
AGAIN AND AGAIN, ALLAH WHO CREAT THE UNIVERSE HE DESCRIBED EVERYTHING IN THE QURAN 1400 YEARS AGO. ALLAH SAID (41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) Quran 41:53 Surah Fussilat ayat 53 THERE is STILL A LOT ABOUT UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN.
You are really lucky!!
Did you ask your self so far who made the sun in such a way of perfection🥰
I know the feeling. I was feeling the same thing. Our beautiful Sun, giver of life and light, our father and mother in many respects. The Sun is amazing. Even though I am not a big fan of those really hot days, I am thankful for our Sun.
@@alikayhanfaizi5823 No, because I know it's pretty easy for a cloud of hydrogen to collapse into a thing such as the sun. Unless you count the Big Bang and gravity, the sun has no creator.
I feel so bad for all the people not interested enough in science and the natural world who will never see this kind of awe inspiring stuff. Beautiful showcase!
i could care less, you feel bad for me?
@@YOUARESOFT.I do. It's a shame.
@@ballistic_buddha explain why though , I mean it means virtually nothing so….
@@YOUARESOFT. Because humans are a naturally curious beings. We want to know and we want to understand how things around us work. We do this with nature and with other people too.
Understanding the things around us is important because that's how we can answer the question of how things work.
As an example: Our star is really calm and not as violent as other stars we have observed in our galaxy. Why is that? Does that contribute in any way to life being formed here? Answering these questions will help us find similar planets to Earth. Not just for ourselves but in a pursuit to find other life.
Stars and space are something that have been a part of the human life for as long as we have looked up. Just like the sun and the moon. They influence our cultures and our beliefs. Science and the scientific method is the only way to understand that.
There are two types of people who don't care: 1. People who are barely surviving and can't afford to be curious. 2. People who have been brainwashed by religion and refuse to believe anything that isn't mentioned in their religious book. The second group of people are what hold back progress both social and technological.
TL;DR Science and understanding nature is important and if you don't care, too bad there's billions more people that do and will progress humanity instead of you.
@@ballistic_buddha it’s ok to be religious , it’s ok to have faith , the afterlife explains this perfectly with nde’s proving that religion most definately plays a roll
I am broken by the thought of showing this to a distant ancestor, and what a descendant would be able to show us from further in the future. This was truly fascinating to watch.
yeah, well said. I was thinking the same thing
Just build a time machine
@@myview5840true, why didn’t I think of that!
@@Thatonedude90 such a simple idea, how's it coming along? Have you finished it yet?
@@myview5840 unfortunately not very well, I didn't take any college lessons so. Pure sheer will is the basis so far. XD
Are we sure its safe to even look at this video??
maybe not in HDR unless you like getting blasted by a 1000+ Nit Screen. In SDR which maxes out at 350 Nits, you could watch this video 24/7 365 no problem
Yes because our creator have control on sun and everything
here yall dropped these 🧠🧠
@@FaizanAbbas-oh2mpThe Creator of 7 Heavens, Allah!
NOPE 😂
I've been an amateur astronomer since I was in my mid teens. I even built my own 16" (406.4mm) reflector in my 20's. I once asked a friend what the closest star to earth was, his immediate answer was Proxima Centauri, when I told him he was incorrect, he bet me $100 that I was dead wrong about what I thought the closest star was. I agreed, and he asked me what I thought the closest star to earth was, and when I said The Sun... he just stood there staring at me. Then called me an asshole and paid the bet.
Technically, it would be Sol.
@@neodimium True, but I'll admit this was over 30 years ago. We were not as up on vernacular then. More like a couple of stoners loving the stars.
@@ElainCorrine hahaha
I can imagine.
Btw, how did you make your 16" telescope? Where did you get plans?
Was it by some old gray astro enthusiast?
Long time ago I was into it also, and I watched his series but now can't found it. ☹️
I chuckled hard at this . Hope you spent your winnings wisely
Hopefully you bought the beer after that one😂
"i want to dive into the sun"
RIP astrum
Gone but not forgotten 😢
I regret nothing
He needs to play Outer Wilds. :)
Or watch the movie Sunshine. :)
What happened to astrum? :O
That is such a cult sci fi classic that captured me as a young man.... the whole tension and special effects was spell binding - I did not quite understand the ending - cube spinning into the sun... gravity was messed up ... yet actors still standing on surface of square ion bomb?
If you ever feel too important, just remind yourself that 99.9% of the universe is just spheres of plasma at scales you can’t even possibly imagine, and you’re just floating on a tiny speck of dust in a practically endless empty void. On a cosmic scale we’re so small and unimportant that we may as well not even exist at all. It’s pretty humbling
Now human that's saying something
When yall figure out the sun and how to by pass space then I'll meet you humans until then research is lost....the end
Of course you're important. Without a witness it isn't there.
@@TerriblePerfection stuff still exists when you’re not there. A tree falling in a forest when no one is around still makes a sound, and two stars colliding on the other end of the universe make a sound too even if no living thing will ever hear it. Sound is just a shockwave that travels through molecules it doesn’t need an observer for it to exist. Same goes for light and color, they’re just wavelengths of energy that continue to exist even when no one is looking at them. The world doesn’t revolve around us and what we observe. Were such an infinitesimally small part of the universe that what we can observe doesn’t even matter, our entire planet could be destroyed in a second by an asteroid or a stray planet or even a tiny rock if it was traveling fast enough through space, and the entire universe would continue on exactly as it is. Nothing would change. We are meaningless compared to the scale of the universe.
Of course you can still choose to live a life that has meaning to you and those around you, that’s all that really matters because that’s all we can really control. We can have meaning within our tiny little world, but on a cosmic scale we’re so small that there’s absolutely nothing we could ever achieve in the entire lifespan of the universe that would even make a difference. Again it’s just humbling. We shouldn’t take what we have for granted because it could all be taken away in an instant and there would be almost no evidence that we ever existed at all. So we should value every day that we still continue to exist.
@@lukestarkiller1470 I take nothing for granted, and am filled with wonder and awe still, at 68. But I disagree that the universe exists without "us" ; we are it, and it is "us." One thing. Non-dual. Things like achievement and meaning are human concepts, not the underlying reality. 🍁
Our Sun is just an ordinary star. Compared to other stars it is puny. But we owe our existence to her.
Nah we owe our existence to God.
omg these images are gorgeous! i'd happily watch 2 hours of this footage with as many different permutations of comparisons as possible.
Have you watched the film Sunshine? Highly recommended if you are into science fiction and find our Sun fascinating. I proimse you'll never look at it the same again
@@osasunaitorI have never heard of that film. I will look it up. Thanks for the tip. 😃
@@osasunaitorit's a good rec! i watched it years ago, cilian murphy is just amazing. but overall, i don't think the movie had 2 hours worth of sun porn xD
@@alveolate you are right, it's not just visual but more of an immersive experience. The images, the music, the implications that the Sun has throughout the whole film give you a profound feeling of awe and majesty
Astrum on Thanksgiving? Well I'm thankful man.
What is Thanksgiving?
Australia
Yes, only the US celebrate thanksgiving. The rest of us work. :)
@@PixelShadedo you not have holidays that happen solely in your country?
I don't think they celebrate thanksgiving in Australia
@@barnucles r/whoosh .... What are you on about? They were pointing out that Astrum doesn't live in the US so posted on Thanksgiving because for him it's not a holiday.
Didn't even feel like 18 minutes. That's how engaging this was! Also, so glad Astrum used kilometers/second in that one measurement. Now those are units for space!
parsecs per second are more accurate to space speeds.
Oh my gosh, I love how you can *hear* this man smile while explaining the sun to us in this video.
8 light minutes away all that is happening. And yet life still exists on our little pebble. Miraculous.
We're here because it's happening😅
life wouldnt even exist if it werent for all of this.
It is perspective shifting, isn't it? As the other two commenters have said, the sun is life's battery. It is the first thing that life eats (plants) which then allows life to eat _itself_. The sun looks as beautiful and brutally fearsome as the life it fuels
@@randyholcomb-3209 …and we are here mostly to provide co2 for plants and add to the nitrogen cycle via our fast breeding and high kill rate
If this is actually a real video and real footage then it was definitely a bloody good one and I loved it👍🏻😁
I'm from the sun it's pretty accurate
@@edwardsullivan5884 thats dope bro i gotta visit some time.
how are their solar winds in a vacuum?
@djIIaSh solar wind isn't literally air, bud
@@djIIaSh Solar winds are not made of air.
The earth is also surrounded by vacuum. But gravity keeps air stuck to the massive planet.
The sun as way more gravity than the earth so if it was just normal air it would not be in a vacuum either.
Hope that helps.
To date, undebatably the coolest real-life space animation video images I have *ever* seen (50 yrs old). Crazy sun stuff in real-time. And I'm sober.
Real life animation??😢
I doubt that last sentence
Most is real images of the sun - some animations atre shown !!!
11:14 oh wow, imagery of millions of mountains waving like grass on a windy day is... horrifying to say the least
Man im glad you said something... I was about to head on out to the sun and watch a rain storm. Boy was that close!
It‘s crazy when you sit back and think for a second that not a single organism would be alive without this gigantic ball of fire in the sky … crazy.
Like duh. Most the cells in your body are human cells, but they all live off your energy. Life eats life. Energy transfers. Everything is cyclical and fractal. How is this not taught in 1st grade?
@@1237barca ??
I didn‘t say i didn‘t know it, i said it‘s crazy
@@cronus-kumo fair enough. My bad. I guess my point is that crazy is the status quo
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@@1237barca buddy even those tiny cells cant live without sun photosyntesis, theres no cycle if theres no energy source, hence he said its crazy without the sun, there will be no life
I’m only about 7 minutes in but I’m such a lover of astronomy. I’m so, so glad you touched on how long it takes photons to actually escape the sun. Such a neat fact so many people don’t know.
Gaines a new subscriber with this!
Ikr.. I felt exactly the same way hearing that information. And there were a couple of other points of terminology that were unique as well.
I'm glad it takes tens or hundreds of thousands of years for a photon to go from the furnace of the interior to its 8 minute and 20 second trip to Earth. Every photon of light that touches us started out as a gamma-ray photon. It loses so much energy during its anfractuous journey to the Sun's surface, that by the time it escapes it's mainly a visible light photon (with some UV, IR, etc as well).
These Astrum documentaries are so engaging. As a keen night skywatcher (but someone with not much math or physics) I struggle sometimes to comprehend the nuts and bolts of the universe but look forward to every new upload and I always feel a little less stupid for having watched them. They reward repeated viewing too. My favourites are the one on Neptune (sooo much information from one fly-by), the New Horizons mission (just WOW) and the longer piece about the Spirit and Opportunity missions on Mars. Nourishing stuff. Please continue.
Like you say the 'nuts and bolts' are truly incomprehensible. Mass, which makes up all we can see, at it's core is made from an invisible, massless force that can create movement within space, to see this mass another massless, but visible force is required and this force propagates through a massless and invisible entity that is space, of which light will propagate for eternity. What are these forces, what is this medium that allows propagation and a primary force to become mass, of which light force will now find interference, but even with all of this being completely unknown, why does any of it even exist in the first place, why do this forces exist, why does this space medium exist, is it all finite, is it infinite. If space is finite, what exists outside of the boundary, if it's infinite, then it's just impossible to comprehend how could that be. It's all so completely incredible, and I truly wonder if humans will ever know the answers...
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING TRULY HIGH QUALITY CONTENT . IT WAS NOT ONLY AMAZING TO LOOK AT BUT ALSO INCREDIBLY WELL SCRIPTED . LOVED IT
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Crazy how the footage from the sun's different layers look like samples under a microscope. Almost like the universe has patterns 😁
i hate to be THAT guy preaching in comment sections but everytime i see patterns like this and it always makes me think about some sort of great designer of the universe (like a god). but everyone is entitled to their own idea its just something i think about sometimes😊
@KainSlanders God the Amighty is real. God of Abraham is the same God of Noah, and Moses. The same God that sent Jesus to be born from a virgin. The only One who can do miracles as such.
Patterns or maybe, just maybe, things tend to follow the same laws of gravity, physics and chemistry no matter where they go, because that's how the universe works. It's almost like the universe, on its own, could have made us and the Sun, because it had eons of time to do it.
@@whothehellarewe that's a whole Lotta faith u have in science.
@@bashthedad9938 Your god and messiah are simply rip offs of previously worshipped deities and religions. I’m willing to bet you know little to nothing about the foundation and historical context of Christianity/Catholicism. You probably just repeat the same brain numbing phrases that the man at the church tells you to say. Much easier than thinking for yourself.
I'm always glad when we are shown of new technologies in video, audio, and photography.
take a vide of the sun with your iphone 2000
What I find *mind-blowing* is we are not just seeing the majesty of our sun, the mother of our planetary system, the giver of life, we are peering into the enigmatic engines of the cosmos. We're getting a small but powerful glimpse into the workings of _every_ star. 🌟✴⭐✴🌟
More like the past puny human
@@uncharted7againblackking256 Who's past?? Get outta my light cone, Earth-worm Jim.
I’m not saying this for attention or for pity, but it’s extremely frustrating being dumb, as in I literally can’t remember any information, but I’ve always been so interested in watching, listening and reading about space. I just can’t absorb, or just recall the info.
I’ve had this problem my entire life.
I watch and read so much, but forget it all. And I struggle to comprehend things, and I can’t problem solve to save my life.
I listen to my favourite song a hundred times and still stuff up the lyrics in the same spot each time when singing along. Just want to slam my head against a wall.
Sorry to vent, I’m just so intrigued and passionate about space but not smart enough to take it in and understand.
You're not alone mate.
I think you're not giving yourself enough credit for the things that you _do_ know. If you're even slightly passionate about a field or topic, including things like music or video games, and can talk to someone about it, then you've already absorbed enough information to be better educated in it than someone else. I think all you need to is to avoid any self-fulfilling prophecies by becoming your best friend and coach, and give yourself time to learn better ways to study or retain information. No one can learn an entire subject in a day. You're not stupid.
Wow. Just wow. I've never seen so much detail on our home star.
This was a phenomenal video.
So much power. It's almost unfathomable.
its all plasma
@mikelisteral7863 ok
Another fantastic job, Alex! I learned a lot and those are some incredible images I have never seen before.
4:47 nice smiley face. Reminds me of the time stop episode of star trek the next generation where pocard gets all silly and draws a smiley face on the gas escaping from the warp core
And in Rick and Morty when they land on a planet with a screaming sun.
I've always been amazed that something as common yet so majestic as a star is sitting in our backyard. It is, however, by necessity as we all know. Still, how incredible. It's very hard to resist staring directly into it. Something so far away yet so large and hot that it burns our skin and blinds us from many millions of miles away.
Actually a really beautiful way of looking at it.
We learn about stars in school when growing up, reading about all the different types and learning the names of ones we’ve observed, watching all these documentaries and seeing images/models of those so far away, imagining what might be orbiting around them … but I’ve never really stopped to think about how we have one right here next to us at all times - so up close and personal. It’s _our_ star, and it’s so full of life. It is the reason we’re here, yet we so casually take it for granted every day.
No wonder many of ancient civilizations worshipped it... Cheers to our majestic grandeur Sun! 🌞🥂
It’s not sitting in our backyard, we are sitting in ITS backyard
@hoonaticbloggs5402 it's all relative
Good luck with your gastrointestinal issues.
Sunspots are such an interesting activity to see, and the fact that they typically last long enough they are well catalogued, named, and mapped also blows my mind. That structures like this remain stable on a something so highly energetic and chaotic long enough to study them in detail over the course of sometimes months; puts them right up there with the Polar Storms we've found on gas and ice giants, and the great spots on gas and ice giants for me.
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The images in this video were absolutely mind blowing. It's difficult to comprehend the sheer scale of this universe. Amazing video👍
This is some of the most beautiful footage I have ever seen, thank you for sharing this with us, and all of the extremely interesting facts! Great video!
I appreciate your explanation of the time lapse. So many films of the sun are at this hyper speed, without that footnote, I was beginning to think that coronal activity at the scale and speeds portrayed must be near 100 thousand miles per second!
Haha yeah... All these highly sped up bits of astronomical footage should come with a little footnote saying "* Not nearly this exciting in real time."
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You take me to places I never thought I’d ever be.
Thank you ❤
Those places don't exist but in a computer. So you still haven't "seen" anything.
But that's not fun...right?
@@kmg3658you seem like a very interesting guy, very...opinionated
I'm happily married. No thanks.@@riot2136
@@riot2136 ALLAH DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN IN DETAIL (((21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?) AND surah zariyat aya 47 ( 51:47 And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.
) AND Yasin aya 38 (yaseen) (And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.) AND surah Anbiya aya 33 (21:33 And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.)
AGAIN AND AGAIN, ALLAH WHO CREAT THE UNIVERSE HE DESCRIBED EVERYTHING IN THE QURAN 1400 YEARS AGO. ALLAH SAID (41:53 We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) Quran 41:53 Surah Fussilat ayat 53 THERE is STILL A LOT ABOUT UNIVERSE IN THE QURAN.
This will go perfectly with post turkey relaxations.
Allahs creation is outstanding. I am just speechless looking at the details of sun and then knowing its just a speck in the space and there are 1000 times bigger stars. Absolutely stunning
If by Allah, you mean physics, then yeah. The universe really is amazing.
Imagine the first realization that the sun was a star similar to all the lights we saw at night back in the day....seeing the milky way and the billions of points of light knowing our sun was only one of them...that expansion of concept must have been brutal for the mind and soul....it was probably the most gutting feeling in all of human history that has never been fully understood, to feel "astronomically" smaller than previously considered, pun intended
Then you look further and realize that some of those points of light are actually galaxies with billions of stars in them. That wasn't fully realized until 99 years ago, so not long ago.
I've never heard of the Solar Spicules before. So cool!
They remind me of sea grass waving in the currents
This episode was absolutely mesmerizing. Well done.
the reason it gets hotter the farther away you get from the surface is because as the atoms leave the surface they release(heat) stored energy thus giving you hotter areas than the surface.
This is absolutely amazing 🌞 🔥
What an amazing journey into the Sun. This is a wild beast, but not the wildest I'm terms of the universe. Just simply amazing.
Thanks for sharing this epic video 👏🏼
Bravo. This has to have had some of the best videos of the sun collected in one place I have ever had the joy of watching. Also a lovely explanation as to the processes that make those videos. Keep up the good work.
This is easily one of my favourite Science TH-cam channels. Keep up the good work, I love it!
Fantastic thank you.
The Sun is very difficult to get details with ultraviolet light. Yet It's still Impossible to find more details about it's Core Interior considering on how powerful our current technology to get an closeup of It's Radiative Zone and it's Core with visible or nonvisible lights
Very interesting, thank you! I was especially fascinated by the granules. They're hypnotic & I could watch them for quite a while.
I also just ordered my glasses for the eclipse! I'm so excited to see one!
Just keep your fingers crossed that there is no cloud
I feel lucky to be alive in this era with such advanced technology. I just really appreciate being able to see so much of our galaxy in amazing and clear detail… …the universe is truly a thing of indescribable beauty.
That's the positive but the negatives are there as well. This level of surveillance shouldn't be implemented on our communities.
Thank you Sun! 😊
these captures of the sun and it's anatomy are so amazing, thanks for sharing.
This channel is the best TH-cam channel about the universe BY FAR. It is informative yet comprehensible, beautiful to watch but most of all, we can all feel Alex's deep love for this subject in every single video. Thank so much. 🤩💫🔭🌘🌕🌞🪐🌎🌌
Thanks for doing this one, I've always been fascinated by looking at the sun through those satellite pictures. Awesome stuff!
The natural nuclear fusion reactor in our solar system is remarkably well-behaved, and I'm really grateful for that!
These images are gorgeous. It's hard to wrap my mind around the scale of even the small features.
27,000,000°F core with petaton explosions every second. A petaton explosion would destroy a state the size of PA.
@@darkmatter1152Yup, and thanks to the massive size and distance of the sun, it's all pretty well-contained. All this stuff that would be astonishingly hard to control in a reactor here on earth just works in the sun, because it doesn't have to be controlled.
Occasionally lady Sol gets spicy and spits at us, and we're all waiting for when she lands a hit, but otherwise we have a pretty laid back fusion reactor that's more or less safe from this distance.
And given those constant petaton explosions, that's wild!
The real thing is the sun really does look like this “🌞” instead of what WE see that’s just “🌝”
Second video of yours that I’ve seen and this is easily the best space channel I’ve watched. Sub well earned 👍🏼
This is the most clear images of the sun I have ever seen, I was mesmerized! Subbed.
Now make a video called "The deepest we have ever seen into Uranus."
They have. It's commonly known as "Midget Rump-Humpers Volume 7"
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Stuff like this gives me an greater appreciation of God, I can’t imagine this level of detail just popping itself into existence out of nowhere
Freakin' incredible video. Well reasearched and endlessly interesting. Love your content!
Two more SDOs to take positions similar to Stereo A & B would be ideal for comprehensive monitoring of the Sun.
Absolutely mesmerizing! 🌞🔭 Witnessing the deepest glimpse into the heart of the sun - science and beauty collide in this incredible journey.
You have a fantastic voice, very soothing and a type of childlike wonder in the way you describe things.
Theories and cartoons are a lot of fun. 🎉
Anyone else get a PTSD flashback when he said the first layer is called “CORONA”
Another great video Alex, thank you.
I love him so much, what an incredible mystery and so familiar to us human !! Without him, nothing exits here... Beautiful video, thanks a lot.I will remember: "in the sun nothing is in solid state, nor liquid nor gazeous, it's only plasma, which is 99,9 per cent of our universe!!!!!"
Good pacing and awesome visuals, totally fascinating!
Our star is endlessly fascinating. All life on earth is sunlight, just changed a bit.
Trees are magical beings made from solidified air and sunlight. :)
Yeah no. Life is matter animated by energy. Energy by itself would just be that, energy. And matter just by itself would just be matter. It's the combination that makes _life_
the creator with all his wonders knew life could not exist without the sun. thank him for your life and the sun.
I read a book on the sun about 15 years ago. Very interesting. It's great that there are new discoveries being made.
Никогда не видел подобного контента. Будто вы представитель общества учёных, изучавших Солнце всё это время. Структура этого, без преувеличения, фильма - очень грамотно продумана. Огромная благодарность за то, что позволили так близко, подробно и так по-разному рассмотреть эту устрашающе великолепную заезду.
fantastic episode! thank you.
Thank you Alex, for this wonderful video. I remember vividly when I was a kid, and getting interested in the Solar System when Voyager passed Jupiter and we on Earth got the first highly detailed images. My father and I watched everything they broadcast (I do particularly remember a "Horizon" special, with Carl Sagan and a Soviet scientist discussing the results. 1979 I think. I was a young kid, but I've never lost that excitement - Jupiter became my "favourite" planet, and I thought Arthur C. Clarke's idea of it becoming a sun, with its own little "Jovian System" was an amazing idea.
Sorry, I'm waffling! This was a wonderful video. I watch most of your vids, and today I was in a lot of pain (I'm disabled, and suffer constant chronic pain) so I've trawled more TH-cam than usual, and this video about The Sun just really reignited (pun?) my excitement again - as do most of your content TBH!
Take good care, be well, and thanks again for a wonderful look at our little 🌟
You know around a lot of other solar systems Jupiter size planets might be proto-stars. A lot of systems have two suns. A proto star is just like it sounds. Just not enough to go full ignition.
@@brown2889 Thanks for that reply - I wondered about this again, so I checked whether it could ever be possible and the result was exactly as you said: The mass is far too low, and even if we worked out how to drastically increase the mass, we still couldn't "strike the match" as it were! I am very grateful that you took the time to answer me and not be insulting - even if my knowledge of real space is lacking 😀! It would have been easy to do that, and it really does make me think that there are good people who, when you don't know something or understand something that they do, they don't do the "Internet thing" and jump down their throats!
I'd like to think that we never stop learning. As an example, when I was a tech writer, I hated the "Dummies Guide" series because of the name. I spent lots of time writing tutorials and step-by-step guides where the jokes were always *on me*. There was lots of self-deprecating humour, how *I* plugged in the wrong cable or screwed the wrong bit first (to illustrate how not to do it). I always would say "NOBODY IS A DUMMY just because they don't know x, y, or z about computers." People are brilliant at their speciality, and I took pains to help as many people "learn through doing", partly as it gives a person a sense of achievement to acquire a new skill, and especially since it was the era when everyone was getting PCs and "experts" were charging them big numbers to fix computers, and I didn't like that at all.
So I know a bit about space, but I start to get lost in the numbers. When I start seeing 1.15E10000000x or something, my mind starts blanking. It could be my Autism - for example, I don't have a "mind's eye", or something. But I remember the "2010" book and how Jupiter became a Sun, and it sort of made sense to me. Rarely does science fiction line up with science *fact*! All the very best my friend!
@@bradmiley Thank You!
You just made my day Brad. I love thinking about space and all things in it. It actually is calming to me. Don’t worry about those numbers. Just enjoy. I do.
@@brown2889 Thank *you*! I've never worried about how BIG space is, in fact, if you're familiar with Douglas Adams (what a writer - I remember hearing the first Hitch Hikers Guide series and thinking how incredible it was/is back when I was but a young un), they put Zaphod into The Total Perspective Vortex. It's a huuuuuuuuuge map of the galaxy with a tiny, tiny, microscopic dot labelled "You Are Here". This is supposed to destroy people's minds by demonstrating how the worst thing you can have in space is "a sense of proportion". If anything, it makes me feel slightly happier - that our problems, on a solaric, galactic, or universal level are meaningless and unimportant. And when you mix space and time, it makes them even smaller -a kind of "well, in 5 Billion years, the Earth won't even be here anyway!" feeling. Although I talk like that around my wife because that vastness *does* bother her.
My father and I didn't get on very well, but where the Venn diagrams did overlap (politics, political dramas/thrillers, space, science, short wave radio, some areas of humour, some areas of music) we would be hyper focused. Those Horizon Specials about Jupiter, and later, Saturn, were incredible. Some would be three hours or so in length and we didn't even want to leave to go to the bathroom (I think this contributed to us getting our first VCR in late 79, possibly!) in case we missed something important. One of the last things I watched with him before he died in 2008 was "Space Odyssey". He started off by saying "You should watch this. I'll show you a few minutes, if you like it I'll run off a copy (he had one of those hybrid PVR/DVD recorder things) for you." I ended up sitting and watching the whole thing with him. I said after "Did I just make you watch that again?" And he replied "Nah. I've watched it about four times already!"
*He* got interested in space through an amazing BBC series that he heard on the radio in the 1950s. Called "Journey Into Space", there are three series, although I'm not *that* keen on Series One (they pick on one character too much for my liking) but Series Two "The Red Planet" is amazing, even more so given we hadn't yet so much as chucked a rock into space! If you haven't heard it, you really should, I believe it's on Audible, possibly elsewhere on the Interwebbings, probably not YT (you know what the BBC is like about copyright!) Oh, and James Follett's "Earthsearch" from 1981, again made into a drama by the BBC, that's a great series too.
The more "real" a drama was as regards how it approached space for both him and me, the better. The biggest sin was any type of noise/sound. Kubrick made clever use of music or the in-helmet breathing make up for it in "2001". For years, to me, that was the Gold Standard of how to make a great film yet not have to break rules with sound in a vacuum.
Crikey I am rambling. I'm going to shut up now. Gone on far too long. But lastly, I love how space affects radio. Sunspots cause incredible ionospheric effects that can bring in signals from much further away than usual. Sporadic E is a radio ham's dream! Propagation, beam steering, HAARP, all fascinating, even if the latter is a bit scary.
Okay. Rambled wayyyyy too long. Enjoying talking with you though my friend! Take care, and be well, Brad.
@@bradmiley I think I have heard Journey Into Space. Have not heard Earth search. Kubrick was really good a tension! He could create great visual tension.
It’s been great chatting with you. I hope you get better too. God bless.
These structures are so beautiful. I didn't know that they move so fast--that's so wild. The way you can actually see the magnetic and thermal energy and in motion with the high temp spectrums is mind blowing.
Great video!
Wonderful imagery, Alex - Thank you!
But you have made an error at 4:25. The sun is not made from plasma, nor of a gas, but rather collapsed matter in the form of liquid metallic hydrogen. And we can know this with certainty based on some fundamental rules in science. Firstly, a gas or plasma cannot have a surface, and a gas (or plasma) always expands to fill the space available. And in a tall column of gas (such as our atmosphere) we always see a gradual drop off in density as altitude is gained. Secondly, we have wonderful video imagery of liquid being blown from the sun, and falling back onto the sun's surface, creating perfectly circular waves, expanding at exactly the rate waves in liquid metallic hydrogen should expand.
9:38 - Something else to consider about the sun, is that thermodynamics means that as we get further away from a hot body, the temperature decreases according to the cube of the distance. And yet scientists measure the surface of the sun at just thousands of degrees, while the corona reaches well over a million degrees. That means there is a massive source of heat in the sun's corona. What is it?
To find out more about the modern theory of what the sun is made from, and how it works, head over to the Sky Scholar channel, run by famous medical imaging expert Pierre Robitaille. He is highly qualified, and most compelling!
I was surprised at the temperature attributes! Super interesting.
Sun ☀ is 2.75 million miles in circumference, 27,000,000°K core with double to tripe digit petatons per second. It's a massive fusion reactor. And helium 3 and hydrogen.
Alex, I would love it if you were to compile some of your videos by subject to be longer single videos. I will still watch all new ones, but then I'd be able to fall asleep to them, too. I'd rather have you make them since it would take me all night to decide what playlist to make 😁
Check out my supercut playlist, it's just what you are looking for
What a stunning view of our local star! Thank you so much for showing these beautiful images and explaining the different aspects of the sun.
You should watch SUNSHINE 2007. a beautiful cinematic journey to the SUN
I find it very interesting how Luna covers Sol perfectly, as well the force-field Earth generates for protection. It`s almost like someone planned it all, perfectly. Very enigmatic.
Like the Universe is looking for the perfect combination, from molecules, seasons balance to planetary & satellite balance (like Jupiter protecting us), to stars and black holes in a universe and who knows how much deeper, to find a long lasting equilibrium of a myriad of elements, to allow life to thrive, as long as possible. Who knows how many other goldy-locks living beings existed somewhere out there but did not have certain elements like us, which help in the long run to survive. A perfect combination that takes billions of years to effect, with perfect luck elements, and it all leads to life with a chance to thrive. Like a trial & error cauldron of molecules & planets. Billions of trials. For billions of years.
Who knows what we might be missing for the even longer road as well?! Is Earth at the center of Universes perfect equation search, for a long lasting life ecosystem? Or is there one out there with a even longer history? It is truly enigmatic & curious.
The sun is fucking crazy. These are spectacular images and videos. Thanks Alex, as always, for your seemless explanations and enthusiasm for space and scientific discovery. You bring the subject directly to us in a format that can be appreciated by the general public.
Much love and respect! 💯
I heard democrat liberal sh!t are planning to block the Sun from global warming.
As a child of a fellow yellow dwarf, I really appreciate this video
ITS NOT YELLOW
This was great, thank you Alex and all the good people at Astrum!
Elon Musk: “Let’s colonize the sun”
Give it some time. The sun will colonize us 😝
The sun is actually white. Not yellow or orange.
Yep but on 🌍 it's yellow
@@darkmatter1152 They aren't showing the sun on earth.
Watching this makes you realize just how powerful and immense God is, because there's no ways someone weak could have created such crazy beautiful things that have such large effects on us from a distance
So, so sad. Brainwashed from birth.
This is insane. I can't even begin to imagine the energy hidden in the universe.
Where is the picture of the sun on the cover of the video?
The thumbnail is a zoomed in section of one of the videos in the intro. For more of that style, check out the creator here instagram.com/simon2940/
Question: For the flare at around 7:27, what is the ratio at which the time-lapse is sped up compared with real time?
2 or 3 hours into a few seconds
@@George71317 Thank you. Where were you able to find that information?
there is a man walking on the sun 3:39 look down left of the sun
That transition layer is one view I haven't seen before. It looks amazing
Reminds me very much of drying dirt with a little sand spread throughout like you'd see around some beaches.
hi steev