DeepSkyVideos - 2014-08-22
Dr Meghan Gray on a long-term project to intensely study a small postage stamp of sky!!! More about STAGES: http://bit.ly/STAGES_space Deep Sky Videos website: http://www.deepskyvideos.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/DeepSkyVideos Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeepSkyVideos Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68847473@N02/ More about the astronomers in our videos: http://www.deepskyvideos.com/pages/contributors.html Video by Brady Haran
I could listen to this lady all day long, beautiful.
I always love the deep sky series, but this one in particular was amazing! I liked being taught about the science, but also getting a peek into how the research itself was performed!!
@Higgins2001 thanks
"'Space,' it says, 'is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-mindbogglingly big it is...'"
you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
"DON'T PANIC!"
😁😁😁😁
@RocKITEman _ 2001 And don't forget your towel.
@Spike's Pa >>> 😊
Yet some of us do some come from the black hole didn't you know 🤭🤫
what humbles me is how much time, effort, dedication and care goes into even the smallest bit of science that we get to hear about. Ten yeas of ones life studying this single image, its every nooks and carnies, every distortion, smudge and blob. That, my friends, is what it takes to do science.
"Carnies" are what it takes to do carnivals.
It's sad really
AM i able to download an HD version of this somewhere? would love to print this off and hang it, just knowing i have now seen some of those smudges up close and what wonders they truly hold!
Pull up. N A S A
Why aren't they talking about the "death star" clearly visible next to, and slightly above the red star at enhanced view, between 5:46 and 5:55? ;)
Illuminati coverup? ;)
haha
Somebody tell Alex Jones. We've got to get this exposed.
@danthefrst Because "they" are smarter than that... Its just another red star silly.
More from Mrs Gray! I could sit here and listen for hours.
Every time I contemplate the incomprehensibly vast cosmos whirling overhead of me every moment of my life I always get the feeling that not enough people put themselves into a cosmic perspective. I know too many people who are caught up in their small personal problems to the point where it's wasting their precious time they have to try to grasp what the hell is going on. Once I started to grasp what the universe was actually like I completely changed as a person.
Yup... We're just as insignificant as the microbes they found buried under kilometers on Antarctica. Trapped in our little bubble but surrounded by the greatest piece of art anyone could possibly imagine. What I would do to be able to visit some of those places!
Given that most people don't even assume a global perspective, this couldn't be more true.
As Dawkins said: 'Religion is the root of all evil'. That's the main reason people hate the cosmic perspective
@Daniel Mocsny Buddy, you are not thinking in big long-term. If everyone said, "who cares about stars and galaxies.." then humans would not push themselves to invent things and tools and move out of Africa 100K years ago, or migrate to the New World 523 years ago. We got to have long term goals. An ant of the colony (terminal cancer patient) may die, but the rest of colony should find a way to survive in case of a fire in their nest and be ready to migrate. That's why we study other stars and exoplanets, because if the Earth ever catches "fire' (like being destroyed by something, nuclear war or asteroid or the Sun's death in 5 Gyrs, then humans should use all the knowledge from astrophysics and astrobiology in order to migrate to other Earths. You should not only care about cancer patients but the whole human species.
Your videos are always interesting and I don't care that you only upload now and then. As long as they keep coming I will be happy.
@BirdSpy Aus thanks for watching - I really enjoyed making this one because it tells us so much about a real science research project
@DeepSkyVideos thank you for the great work =)
Am aware it maybe should be "tens OF thousands OF" but that is not quite such a snappy title in English!
@Stephan Bischoff Danke :3
@Stephan Bischoff That's actually what it says on the poster. "Zehntausende" means just like he said "tens of thousands of". "ten thousand of" means "Zehntausend".
Similar "Hunderte" and "Hundert" means "hundreds of" and "hundred".
@pcfreak1992 thats true :D
And in dutch it would be "tienduizenden"
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When she's talking about the one galaxy cluster behind another, it's so weird to realise that the more distant cluster as seen in the photograph is possibly thousands of years further back in the time than the cluster right in front of it.
One picture of two things, and the picture is seeing one of them thousands of years further in the past than the other. It makes me feel weird.
Also the way she says "flocculent" is awesome.
This picture ilustrates very good the lightcone concept. All the light we see is NOW for us, but for those on the other end our PAST is their NOW.
It'll be a heck of a lot more than mere thousands of light years further back, I can tell you that much. The Andromeda Galaxy is over 2.5 million light years away, and that our closest neighbour!
@marzcorp
Yeah, I guess I didn't really think that part through. Even though I know The Milky Way is ~100,000 light years in diameter.
Thanks for the correction.
Well, down at the Creation Museum they don't believe the light we are seeing from those galaxies is really billions of years old. They go with the mere thousands of years as in your first estimate.
I love listening to this lady speak. Knowledgeable and seemingly extremely light-hearted, I surmise I would enjoy her as my professor.
Just wanted to put that out there :-)
yeah i felt that too. calmness.
I would love to have printed version of this poster.
Looks like you can Buy a 80x80 Poster here:
German > Eng. http://goo.gl/q06YT2
Thanks. Somehow I missed "can be bought from" part of this page.
I dont know which is prettier, Dr. Gray or the stars
I like your dedication and passion. Great videoclip, I enjoyed.
"One of these stars is not like the others" aka Sesame Street ;)
Always love to see one of these featuring Dr. Gray; she so clearly loves what she does, and her enthusiasm causes the viewer to get pulled in a little further than would have been the case otherwise.
Thank you, Brady and Meghan.
asteroid photobomb hahahah :D nice one :D
This is by far the Best video I've seen for years. Thank You so much for this.
I'd call it Dr Grey's patch :-)
OMG that's my instrument! :D (well it was my instrument when I worked there) I was starting to get suspicious when she mentioned the size. Awesome.
Amazing! Would be like watching a movie within a movie within a movie within a movie that is playing in one single pixel of a television screen
Dr Meghan Gray is so awesome,really love her videos.That's just one patch of sky with so many galaxies and stars.....mind blowing stuff ! I'm so glad there are people like her dedicating their lives to solving just a piece of the overall puzzle of the universe.
Just amazing !
Lunatics on the spinning, wobbling, flying ball in vacuum - flying at thousands of mph around sun which is 93000000 miles away???? INSANE
Watched this probably four years ago and again just now. Still just as awesome. Thank you!
this is probably my favorite Deep Sky video you have ever published Brady!!!
You should so call Abell 901/902 bob instead
Agreed
extremely interesting as usual.
thank you dr. gray
i have a question: do you contribute your sometimes "british" accent to living in england, or is it a canadian thing?
I truly enjoyed this video. Thank you Brady & Dr. Gray!
Wow, so beautiful and amazing :-)
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful image.
Would love to see a follow up video on what was learned from this work.
Fantastic. One of my favorite videos so far.
Fascinating! Thank you so much for the upload.
Love love everything about this video. Thanks!!!
One of the most amazing videos. Thank you Brady.
Is there a way to download this image? I would love to have it.
I love galaxies! I would have loved to visit you and have you show me all these and many more of the galaxies in your field.
What about the stars twinkling in her eyes?❤️
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. This is one of the best youtube channel.
Great video. Very informative. Like your work Brady!
Love these videos :)
Wow, so amazing !
I love Meghan's videos, this was no exception. Great stuff.
I absolutely love this image. I was one of the people who kept going online and help find galaxies as well as bubbles in the gas clouds. I miss doing that. Beautiful images...
Holy crap we are so insignificant! Amazing video...
10 years well spent. I thank you for your contribution to the betterment of collective human knowledge!
i enjoy all your videos very interesting, thank you
More please, love videos like this & its a plus when the host is hot :-$
Thanks so much for these videos. :D
On the whiteboard behind Dr. Gray, there is a drawing of an H-R diagram with (what I think is) a track line indicating the evolution of a sun-like star.
I would love to see videos about both of these things: H-R diagram, and evolution of the sun.
Ronald de Rooij - 2015-04-08
She is so clear, such a quiet charachter. My favourite scientist/teacher.
Rings Circles - 2020-04-04
character is how it spelled