How Far Away Is It - 13 - Virgo Supercluster (1080p)
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In this segment of our "How far away is it" video book, we cover our local supercluster, the Virgo Supercluster.
We begin with a description of the size, content and structure of the supercluster, including the formation of galaxy clusters and galaxy clouds. We then take a look at some of the galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster including: NGC 4314 with its ring in the core, NGC 5866, Zwicky 18, the beautiful NGC 2841, NGC 3079 with is central gaseous bubble, M100, M77 with its central supermassive black hole, NGC 3949, NGC 3310, NGC 4013, the unusual NGC 4522, NGC 4710 with its "X"-shaped bulge, and NGC 4414.
At this point, we have enough distant galaxies to formulate Hubble's Law and calculate Hubble's Red Shift constant. From a distance ladder point of view, once we have the Hubble constant, and we can measure red shift, we can calculate distance. So we add Red Shift to our ladder.
Then we continue with galaxy gazing with: NGC 1427A, NGC 3982, NGC 1300, NGC 5584, the dusty NGC 1316, NGC 4639, NGC 4319, NGC 3021 with is large number of Cepheid variables, NGC 3370, NGC 1309, and 7049.
We end with a review of the distance ladder now that Red Shift has been added.
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You're welcome. I really appreciate the comment.
And here i am on Xmas at 1:23 am watching those videos again, one more video before i close the computer. What have i done.
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Merry Christmas for 2022 when it comes
Anyone else listen to this dude every night to sleep lol?
The fact that you're not actually seeing these galaxies are they ARE, right now, but rather as they WERE in the remote past is more than enough reason to just and sit and stare in awe and reverence. Absolutely, completely mind-boggling and so majestic and beautiful
Aaron Gentry it really, really is
yea, GOD is amazing
getjoshnow you’re an idiot.
When you see all these galaxies and how big the universe is, you realize that we are almost small as electons in our wolrd. We are nothing more than noisy dust
Or perhaps every galaxy is a neuron and the Universe is just someones brain in a higher dimension... the stars are just brain cells and we are nothing more than thoughts.
Wow, the music in the background is an intermezzo from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana! Love your channel.
I just can't wrap my mind around this.
Walter White it really is hard to. My god it's just so amazing haha.
Watch his earlier videos and it opened my eyes to what math can truly find out about the universe.
I'm a virgo this just made my day after reading what it on (Lagunitas Supercluster Beer) I love being educated about these things so beautiful I love our planet and what is around us that keeps us going thank you for this I thank all of the universe .
Like Hector David's comment of 7 months ago; wonderful! delightful script, discriminating classical music in the background, and everything explained for the layman and a (very) amateur astronomy buff like me. (And no silly, gratuitous explosions/special effects we find on PBS Nova and the like)
Cheers!!
As a child in the 1960's I became fascinated with Space. My fascination was fueled by the Space Programs of the 60's that culminated with our Moon Landings. Still, after all these years I can watch a video like this one with sheer awe. It never grows old. Thanks to Mr. Butler for posting all these great videos.
This series has taught me more than all the dozens of documentaries I've watched on this topic. Thank you, kind sir! I am so lucky to have access to this!
You have a slow style that is great for presenting this material. Mind blowing distances and sizes ... a future space faring humanity will have an insane amount of things to learn and explore.
These videos make my ego go away.
Magic mushrooms work for me.
Total ego death.
Well, it's about time you got that ego of yours in check 🤞🙏
Thank you for taking the time to make and post these videos. I have always loved astronomy but so much of the mainstream documentaries just show CGI dramatization or avoid giving actual information.
These, on the other hand, are informative and honest. They have reignited my old curiosity by teaching me... and, well, I suppose I'm simply grateful.
If we drive all night and not stop for gas, I think we can get 'there' in one haul... let's roll!
doceigen lol
@DocEigen /Several decades ago a comedian named Don Novello played a delightful character, called “Father Guido Sarducci”, on some of the earlier Sat Nite Live shows. This character was sardonic and quite witty, and he was in a number of rather good skits.
• Novello also had a side hobby, that of writing funny, wacky letters to famous people, or to various organizations, sent under the name of “Lazlo Toth.” Sometimes he added “Super-Patriot” to that name.
• These letters eventually were published in a book which included the replies he’d got back - replies which invariably completely missed Novello’s underlying comedic thrust; each seriously, and inanely, replying to “Lazlo” in straight forward, simplistic fashion, no matter how off-wack Lazlo’s letter was. The contrast of Lazlo’s letters with these answers is rather funny.
• However, there was one letter, a letter sent to NASA, where the reply significantly differed. At the end of the letter to NASA, Lazlo asked ‘how long’ would it take him to drive to Mars!
The NASA reply was delightful. Clearly, the person at NASA replying adroitly had picked up on Novello’s tongue-in-cheek humor. After first responding to some initial comments in Lazlo’s letter, the ‘driving to Mars’ question was wryly answered. Lazlo was told that if he had started driving from earth at the same time as when Columbus left Spain sailing to the new world in 1492, that Lazlo only just now, at that current time, 500 years later, would finally be arriving on Mars. The writer also calculated the total amount of gasoline Lazlo would consume on his trip - commenting “assuming you’ll be driving there in your VW bus, at 25 miles per gallon” - and included how much it would cost Lazlo, “at current gas prices.” NASA’s letter concluded by wishing Lazlo ‘happy motoring’.
I always wanted to meet the person at NASA who wrote this clever response. The world needs more mirthful people.
My G 😂🍻
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@Leonard Harlan yup, I have been watching on instaflixxer for years myself :D
"This is only one of millions of Super Clusters"...I don't think I will ever be able to comprehend the enormity of Space...just getting mental meltdown. Thank you, great video.
aeiq1219 considering our bodies are created from supernova blasts and our consciousness was also created from millions of years of elements interacting.
Just utterly mind blowing
This is absolutely amazing,
and we as humans spend most our time chasing money, fighting over which God made all this
and never really moving ahead.
Thank you for this video.
This channel is awesome. Thank you for sharing your passion!
jammintoast It is right.
I've watched each of his videos multiple times and each time I understand or find something new that is mind blowing.
Way to go for Edwin Hubbell. He did what he did before computers, phones or even cameras as we know them.
Local super cluster, 110 million light years in diameter. That is mind boggling. Speed travels at 186,000 mps, and if we sent any ship that could travel at 11 mps like the Viking space probes, to the Alpha Centauri binari star system, the closest stars to our sun, approx 4.5 light years away, it would take approx 70,000 years to get there.
Space is like a giant science experiment.
how can anyone deny a creator now that boggles my mind
That’s what you get from watching this?
@@Machistmo yes all of this didn't came out of nothing the accuracy is perfect in the universe
They'd rather believe everything happened by chance.
@@user-zj3ho1xd8gTheres actually no accuracy at all...
Mr David, you make me sleep. Love it
This universe is beyond our imagination
I'm a long time subscriber of your channel, and I must say that it's perfect for me. Your choices of musics with your knowledges on the universe and astrophysique in general, always give me some greats moments. Thank you for all your amazing work
I've been attracted to astronomy since I was a young child. I remember telling my Mother at 15 in 1980, that I felt that every galaxy had a black hole in its center that acted as an engine. In my mind, that was the only thing massive enough that could explain the pinwheel motion I saw in pictures, as there was no internet, just books.
Randy Good for you Randy. Perceptivity is a valuable quality.
Stay young in consciousness friend.
These scientists, astronomers are so so wise so smart to even do these things I wish I could join up there so phenomenal... just a beautiful world still yet to be explored thank you to all who make this happen to those who are up there stay up too beautiful to look back down ❤
Absolutely phenomenal. Great video David
you are an amazing educator David thank u for your series, u are blowing me away all the time
Great work, it is fascinating to watch how wonderful the universe is. It all points to one conclusion that there must be a creator.
@paul orta
You just got through watching the evidence
How do you come to this unlikely conclusion ?
Exiguous of matter is created by something what created that something aka god?
I created it, so everybody obeys me
Something must be built by something or someone. I don't buy from science that all this came from nothing. All this energy in the universe need to have a source. You may be right, you may be wrong about a God...nobody knows this.
We are so infinitesimal minuscule small and we will fade away into the thread of time and no one will know we ever existed.
Wonderful David, thank you :-)
I've been studying cosmology/astronomy for 25 years. The more I learn about it, the more baffling it is to me. But that's a wonderful thing. What else can you study for so long and still have more questions than answers? Some of what I've learned so far include: We are rare and special; The one thing for sure about our existence, is that it is NOT pointless; There is such a thing as the sacred--we are a product of sacredness, and one tangible aspect of our purpose is to sanctify the lives for which we were created; Life is not simply the sum of time + matter + chance.
Somewhere in the virgo supercluster i suspect there sure must be another lush earth like planet
We may never know.
Somewhere in the virgo cluster I suspect there sure must be another earth like planet with a David Butler talking about our galaxy group :)
@@yo9hnhradio Maybe David Butler in a galaxy far far away with his 24 tentacles and 64 eyes will have a different perspective on the universe.
Somewhere in the Milky Way itself there is another planet with Earth like conditions.
Love all your videos, Dave. Thank you!
THANK YOU DAVID BUTLER !!! This is absolutely the BEST explanation of how we figured out how to estimate distances, and more. Your video book is central to understanding astronomy and astrophysics and should be the first core course at the universities in science..
Larry Giarth Thank you Larry.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for making this, the scale of these needs to be seen in video to be believed!
Love your videos David! it takes me into my own trance after watching these. Thanks for doing these videos and please continue to do more :)
This series is the perfect accompaniment to my Astronomy module. Absolute gold.
Love these videos! ❤️ 🌌 🌟 💫
Nice job explaining everything, and great music.
GOOD work
Thank you David for your beautiful and informative presentation, it also serves for me to want to stand outside, look out towards space and then wave to the many intelligent civilizations that must abound in the cosmos, NO we are not alone!!.
David, thank you for putting these awesome videos together, you give out more information then other documentary. Your knowledge and research is truly appreciated. Keep up your passion and excellently work.
Michael RichRic
Awesome thank you so much. A wealth of information
The scales are insane. Our Earth is ridiculously like nothing compared to this. This is only the local observable area.
Earth is just an atom in the scale of the universe
Right
An alien who commutes from outside The Virgo Supercluster often complains about how his Chevy Nova is not reliable. His daughter bought a Ford Orion, drove it for 390 llight years and out of the blue a supernova destroyed the engine.
great videos! very relaxing as well, subscribed
Thank you for these videos sir.
Thank you Hubble. Thank you for doing this video.
Superb well documented, good eye opener
Great stuff, thanks for posting this!
Thanks For An extraordinary knowledge & Information
Love this channel
So many places to see, so many worlds to visit, so much knowledge to uncover. I mean this should be the sole purpose of the human race to evolve further into a multi galactic specie.
Edward Wilson I don’t think we’re connected to them by gravity so we can’t go much further than the local group
@@sambalsillie4301 even within the local group, there is so much the human race can explore.
Fantastic video
Thanks for sharing.
Whatever Vivaldi thought of 'Winter', I now think the same of whole Virgo cluster.
The soundtrack to the video is a great choice,
Amazing video and explanations.
You really inspire me.
David Butler is awesome. I could listen to him do a commentary on how paint dries and be intrigued
awesome. wondering why I am seeing your channel for the first time today. subbing without lifting a brain cell. great work. will be watching with my 9 year old and 5 year old. Thanks.
Thanks for the comment. Let me know how the children like it. I'm hoping it triggers an interest in science.
My God, it's full of galaxies!
So, which one of these galaxies does Star Wars happen?
😂
just look for the galaxy that's far, far away.
William Ellars it’s possible
I am more into Star Trek ( though I loved Star Wars as a teenager in 1977. It was so strange to me when somebody from back then just had written to me, telling she 'educated my son zo be a Star Wars fan just because of you'. I had almost forgotten how much I once liked it, and it was so strange to meet after nearly a whole life somebody again and to go back to the little girl I once have been! So incredible much came back!)
Anyhow; what I wanted to say is: I love that people took the time to make a map which point(s) in the galaxy the Enterprise ( I only love TOS) has reached! So incredible to look at it!
As a child I thought they flew crisscross the universe. But it was really just neighborhood, so to say. Anyhow, I wished I could fly there, too.
This is the only thing what gives me comfort when it comes to death. When Carl Sagan died, whom we loved, and I was sad because shortly after a comet came and he could not see him, my Mother said' he rides now with it through space and sees all its wonders'.
And when she died this was what helped me: to think now all her longings can calm down. I look into space and cannot reach it. She finally could.
When I will die, the first thing will be to look for her. And then we visit the pillars of creation, stargazing again, as we did my whole life until she had to leave me.
100,000,000 subscribers without any videos yeah it just blows my mind that if the universe is infinite there is a possibility of the events of Star Wars playing out in a galaxy really far away
Amazing... i go crazy by thinking where is the wall...
thanks Mr.David...
great video
I saw structures like that in small pieces of fog that got separated from the main cloud. When the small pieces of fog inside the wind current were rolling around (but not breaking up) while they moved slowly in one direction was a cool site to see. It was a 3D show. It was as if I was seeing different filament structures consisting only of dark matter moving in 3D. I've been watching the fog now differently. One set back to seeing the fog structures tho is that the conditions ,I think, have to be the same as it was that day I first noticed them because I'm not seeing it again lately. Anyone else noticed?
The music is perfect the subject is mind blowing absolutely mind blowing fascinating spectacular I'd like to have been born when I could have my own personalised planet oh well oblivion will have to do
Thank you for your help
David Butler - the Master of the Cosmos!
amazing. Thanks for making this.
NGC 2841 is absolutely stunning.
Life does not have to be what we humans perceive as life..maybe others live under very different conditions that's why we cannot find them because we look for what we think fits our understanding of life..we barely know anything..we are discovering new life forms on our planets like viruses and yet we conclude we are alone in the universe...ironic isn't it
Wonderful and breathtaking. And Ima god fearing, science loving cosmology enthusiast. You have a great video book set david, you are bar none, THE best narrator and producer of THE best videos that has a great supporting balance of fact and the math to explain the reasons why we as humans know what is being described.. especially how old it is. Love that set. Great work david.. there is so many nova and national geographic documentaries out there that truly were produced for children. No math or explanations as to what exists and how they work. Just pictures. For children.
Hey David great video... I love the way you explain the Galaxy , stars , blackholes and so on ... In very calm and in detail... I just have question you said the Galaxy is tilted and that's why it is having X shape .. can you explain how we can determine if it is tilted where there is no up or down side in this universe ?
does my head in how we can see this i feel lucky that i can thanks much.
Thank you again for another magnificent video.
Excellent.
excellent stuff David.
much appreciated. finally some videos made for adults instead of the usual made for U.S audience with short attentionspan :)
I love this series.
The song at 7:50 is Intermezzo Sinfonico
André Rieu - Intermezzo Sinfonico
Pietro Mascagni - “Intermezzo for Cavalleria rusticana” (Rustic
Chivalry) - Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, released in 1890, created a new style
for music. It represented a move from romanticism to realism. It was our study of the
Virgo Supercluster that helped mankind begin to understand the true enormity of
the Universe, putting to an end more romantic notions of our place in the cosmos.]
That was great. Thanks!
I have seen your encouragement to ask you any questions. So I try : Saul Perlmutter uses in his explanation of the discovery of the accelerating univers a diagramm, called "Expansion History of the Univers". In this diagramm, the right coordinate axis, which has intentions : 1. The time till now of the explosion of a SN Ia and 2. The relative brightness of this SN Ia.
My question is : Is there realy a fix correlation between these two intentions, independent of the concrete history of expansion?
I´ve always been interested in the Universe and read quite a bit about it, and also had an idea of how small our planet is, but after watching this well made documentary, It´s clear to me that I´m not even an atom. Congratulations on your work and thanks for posting David.
Did this make you feel small?
To me, it makes me feel like it was all designed for a purpose that we, sentients, are able to explore and discover. :{D
I’m a Virgo!
Fantastic video! Thank you Mr. Butler. Does anyone know if the Fibonacci numbers apply to the arms of spiral galaxies?
Interesting question. You can construct a spiral shape from a Fibonacci series. Nature grows cell by cell and can often generate spiral shapes with the growth pattern mimicking the series (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,...). Galaxy spiral arms can be connected to the series just because they both generate spirals. There is no known physical connection like there is with cell growth patterns.
I’m a Virgo the world is literally in my hands lol I know not really but like the Milky Way is in it and earth is in it so that makes me feel good lol
not lol it is lola
Lol yeah. Proud moment for us virgos. Even though it doesn't relate to us lol.
We are super virgos located in the super cluster of virgo😯
Laugh out lard ass
My next tattoo !
You should follow up with the Laneakia
And to think that all these clusters and superclusters are in what some Astronomers say is the biggest void in the entire observable universe. We think we are surrounded, but we are in the middle of nowhere. Relatively speaking.
Never mind us being in the middle of a massive void, we are in the biggest void in the entire universe. IIRC, recent research says, anyway. Hope I didn't get that wrong.
Impressive
a champagne supernova? This is so incredible it's hard to believe it's real.
amazing
Recently scientist observed x-shape feature in Milky Way. I'm wondering if there's connection between that in Milky Way and in NGC 4710
Hi David. Just how many stars that we see in the night sky are now no longer there and opposite to that, ie how many stars are out there that their light is yet to reach us? Have any new stars been seen / lost in recent years?
I am a month late, but:
All the stars you can see with the naked eye are all still there, as they're all in our own Galaxy, which won't have light older than 105.000 years (diameter of our Galaxy). Only exception are stars that will have gone supernova and the light of that has yet to reach us.
Witwicky galaxy ?
Dose are milkyway have those high power winds ?
Hi You say the universe is expanding outward. Yes, you are right, but by 50%. I believe that the Universe is expanding both in the external direction and in the internal, and I am 100% right.
What? What is your definition of internal and external?
@@Stuff_happens 1. The dark energy of the Universe is hidden in quantum membranes - shells located in a spherical quantum "rose bud", each at its own level of energy. 2. Quantum gravity - works like yes, the energy center in the quantum "rose bud" drifts relative to the beginning of the energy level, the quantum of membranes. 3. Einstein’s smooth space in a quantum universe, collected by fractals from a quantum “rosebuds” connected by quantum strings. 4. Quantum "rosebuds" are connected by flat quantum membranes forming quantum strings. g55ton.narod.ru
What about the galaxies that are headed towards our solar system at the same speed that the universes is expanding so these galaxies would theoretically be standing still relative to us. What do we call this and how can one validate this with math? Thank you as always for sharing! Love your videos
Rich, I go into depth on this question in the "How old is it" series first two videos. Take a look and see if your questions are answered. David
David, Is it some kind of a program you used to visualize galaxies in 3D space?
I get these from the Hubble Space Telescope websites.
lol crazy dentist Muzak..!!! 👀
But if galaxies are in super clusters that influence each other at mind blowing distances how is it "so simple" to calculate the Hubble constant? I mean everything "locally" is tugging on everything in some way and this must in some way influence the rate of expansion depending on where we look. I can't imagine the calculation is so straight forward. And then their are mega structures that add even more complexity to the rate of expansion. Please help.
I go into this in depth in the upcoming video on the Big Bang Theory.