Flyby of the Whirlpool Galaxy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2019
- The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, is one of the nearest and best examples of a grand design spiral galaxy. Located about 25 million light-years away, the face-on galaxy exposes the full details of its swirling structures of stars, gas, and dust. The striking symmetry of its spiral pattern may be due to a gravitational interaction with a companion dwarf galaxy, NGC 5195, which is not included in this visualization.
The Hubble Space Telescope's high-resolution view of this magnificent spiral galaxy comes to life in this 3D visualization. The flight across the pancake-shaped disk features the older, yellower stars toward the center and the younger, bluer stars in the outer regions. Dark dust lanes outline the spiral arms, along which are strewn an array of bright pink star-forming regions.
Credit: F. Summers, J. DePasquale, and D. Player (STScI) - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Hi folks. I'm the lead astronomer and visualizer on this project. If you have questions, post them here. I'll check back every now and then to try and answer them.
Cool! Nice work Frank. I was wondering, how sharp is the edge of the galaxy? In all the pictures/simulations I've seen they seem to not be very diffuse at all. Am I correct in thinking that the edges of galaxies are way more diffuse that that? Are there stars several hundred light years away from the edge that are still part of that galaxy?
Very cool video. What is the virtual speed we're traveling ?
What was the speed of the flyby?
I Love Hubble, I watched all the spacewalks to refurbish her. She's got that new coupler why don't ya give her boost back up into orbit. Such a waste of taxpayer dollars to let her burn up.
Sooooo freggin awesome!!! I just want to say thank you so very much! People like you are exactly the ones who bring genuine greatness into it the world! Folks like you and Robin Williams, Hayao Miyazaki, Bob Ross, Hans Zimmer, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcus Aurelius, and other greats, make this world a much better place, so I sincerely thank you, stay awesome!
On a personal note, I hope to live on Ganymede one day, though it may never happen, and I might have to settle for a space station, the Moon, or Mars, you sir, certainly inspire me to try! Have a wonderful day! 😎🏁🏆🌞👍♥️🙂🌟👨🚀🚀🌝🌌
The only thing that can travel faster than the speed of light is a flyby video from Hubble.
The speed is roughly 300,000 light-years in one minute, or 5,000 light years in a second. That's about 150 million times faster than the speed of light. Yes, we do have to violate the laws of physics to create such visualizations.
@@FrankSummers thank you for answering my question!
Hubble, you are getting older but you have achieved so much. I will respect you until you send back your last photo❤️
Next is JWT!
Not photos, computer generated images.
@@JustSomeGoy depends on how you look at it
How beautiful galaxies are, I love Hubble and this channel, thank you so much for sharing to the world.
Beautiful. Go Hubble!
Amazing thanks for you 🌹👍
Amazing and beautiful.. 😍💚
Just Amazing...Life is Precious...
Hubble is the Chuck Norris of telescopes. #facts
If Hubble's a Chuck Norris, then the James Webb Telescope is a magnificent combination of Jackie-Chan, Terry Crews, and The Rock.
Yeeter Chungus JWST? Eeeewwwww yeah! I can’t wait till it’s in orbit and fully operational.
I always meet new people that think an image of our own galaxy exist. Even thou I explain to them that there is no camera out there and never will be.
Just like the Big Bang :) Difficult to explain because it is always described from the perspective of being 'outside'.
Why won't there ever be a camera?
@@rooselectum4890 There could be, some day, but it would probably take a very very very long time to get one out there. Voyager has just barely left our star system and it was launched over 40 years ago. With our current tech, it would probably take thousands of years or longer to get a camera outside of our galaxy, and a little bit of luck :)
If you would like to see how pictures of the Milky Way are constructed, watch the "How Far Away Is It" video on the Milky Way - th-cam.com/video/uVxrsJ5lZlQ/w-d-xo.html
@@rooselectum4890, it will take loooots of time for us to send a camera outside the Milky way and far enough so that it can capture it all.
I had a dream like this last night! Now I know it was a Galaxy fly by.
Lovely!!!
Wonderful
I was wondering, is each dot a star or a cluster of stars?
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If you would like a little bit of background on how this sequence was made, check out the talk I gave last Tuesday. The section on this sequence starts at about 41 minutes: th-cam.com/video/Dl9QvNBOU38/w-d-xo.html
Nice
wow!
It looks like star formation is going on, big time. Is that what those explosion looking bits are, that run lengthwise, down the center of the spiral arms?
Correct. A rule of the thumb is that where there the bright spots (your 'explosions' ) there is star birth where as the relatively dark places are formed worlds.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ I loooovvveee this!!! I want to live in space! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
We live on a rock flying through space, your wish has been granted.
Does this galaxy have massive black hole at the center? What are the observations of stellar motion near the galactic center?
All large galaxies are thought to have supermassive black holes at their cores. I don't know the specifics for the Whirlpool, but it would strange if it did not contain a SMBH.
Thinking of how the symbol for tao or yin and yang to think that someone all those centuries ago was able to see so far away. Or was it because we de-evolved somewhere along the way, and we once traveled the stars and we are just now finding our way back.
Note it takes about 30 sec to cross the galaxy. Assuming it is about 100,000 LY across (ave. size), that works out to 1.9e16 miles/sec.
Applying the warp formula: Velocity=Ce**w, we get a warp value of 25. Warp 25 Mr. Sulu! Scottie: I donna think she can take it!
Why isn't the companion galaxy the Whirlpool Galaxy is interacting with included?
One of the purposes of this visualization was to demonstrate the structure of a spiral galaxy. We explored that in another video "Shedding New Light on the Whirlpool Galaxy". For those purposes, the companion galaxy would have been a distraction.
@@FrankSummers Thanks for responding Dr. Summers, that's interesting. I did watch the Hubble's Universe unfiltered series and that's why I asked in the first place. I'd also really want to thank you for all the awesome content you and your team put out in recent years. In my humble opinion you managed to teach complex astronomy in an easy to understand and fun awe-inspiring way.
Traveling at the speed of light. Get it?
Cool cgi.
is this space engine?
No. This piece was rendered with custom C code that I have been writing and re-writing for about 20 years.
@@FrankSummers wow, hats off to you!
How can anyone make a video of a galaxy when we are not able to even cross the solar system yet ?
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From here to...
where is his little irregular buddy that tags along?
It’s dwarf friend could of been shown
I M P R E S S I O N A N T E ...
Why are all these videos animations simulations visualations creations not the real actual footage.. I mean its 2019 what the heck I want to see real actual untouches unedited footage not some animation of or aimulations or reproductions
For the planets of stars that are on the extreme outskirts of the galaxy, the night sky must be really boring.
Not necessarily. Night and day depend whether planet's surface facing its star. Not to its galaxy's center.
bayu djeruknipis I’m not talking about a planet’s relationship to it’s star, I talking about the star’s position in the galaxy. In the video of this galaxy, you see stars that are far from the galactic center. These stars are at the far tip of a spiral arm. If Earth was orbiting these stars the night sky would be boring because there are not many stars in the immediate area.
*raising an eyebrow*
bayu djeruknipis I am referring to the very small sparse patch of stars at the outer edge of the galaxy. Between 1:04 to 1:06.
You know that planets orbit their star. You then know that a planet will not always at the same position relative to its star and galaxy. Indeed there will be times when the rest of galaxy obscured by the star. But how about the other time, when the planet is positioned between its star and galaxy center? Won't its night time reveal the full view of the galaxy?
Great. But God is one
Totally fake
Flat galaxy = flat earth
Do Not Breed
Flat Earth = Flat Head.
Calm down gents, I’m being sarcastic. Doesn’t take much to go over your flat heads, does it?
Nancy King this makes less sense than my sarcastic joke ..
Captainwilo flat like your sarcastic humor.