Exceptionally Deep View Of Strange Galaxy (Hubblecast 26 in HD Quality)

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A big jump to the outer from our planet.  :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCk2TUQ8LtI

(Video posted on april 10 2009)

If you're intersted in astronomy, I recommend the others Hubblecast : http://www.atheism-magazine.com/topics/Space_NASA_ESA_ESO.html
Very well done.
 
Wonderful videos. The first linked video is incredible as we zoom into that particular galaxy which at first is so small you can't even see it in the black "void".
 
The best videos I have watch to realize the size of the universe :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-illQYn7nA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Af8GdRN_A (I like the music)

Mind openers.


About units used in videos:
One gigaparsec (Gpc) is one billion parsecs — one of the largest distance measures commonly used. One gigaparsec is about 3.262 billion light-years, or roughly one fourteenth of the distance to the horizon of the observable universe (dictated by the cosmic background radiation). Astronomers typically use gigaparsecs to measure large-scale structures such as the size of, and distance to, the Great Wall; the distances between clusters of galaxies; and the distance to quasars.

For example:

    * The Andromeda Galaxy is 0.77 Mpc away from the Earth.
    * The nearest large galaxy cluster, the Virgo Cluster, is about 18 Mpc away from the Earth.
    * The galaxy RXJ1242-11, observed to have a supermassive black hole core similar to the Milky Way's, is about 200 Mpc away from the Earth.
    * The particle horizon (the observable part of the universe) has a radius of about 14 Gpc (46.5 billion light-years).

Extract from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigaparsec#Distances_in_parsecs

Millennium simulation page: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/press/ (Max-Planck-Institute)


C's 1995 09 09
Q: (L) Are there any positive Extra-terrestrials from the area of Sirius interacting with human beings at the present time?
A: Well, now! First off, it is important for you to know that the term you use: Extra Terrestrial, which of course, is one of the most correct terms used at your level, all that is NOT of the Earth is Extra- Terrestrial. And, for those on your surface earth environment to refer to themselves as the supreme species, or alone in the universe, or the one and only in the cosmos, is laughable in the extreme. It is akin to a microbe on a grain of sand referring to itself as the only form of life on the beach. Would it not? Now, when you ask are there any beings in the vicinity of Sirius, it would be something like that same microbe, located on the grain of sand, on the beach, which is, of course, but one of the beaches located on the surface of the earth, after all, asking if there is, in fact, any life located over in the vicinity of that seashell...
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Similarly to that video there's an image that gives scale comparison of planets/stars:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

And absolutely my favorite, a mind-blowing interactive flash presentation of the full scale that humanity is aware of - from the universe itself to the neutron, all compared side by side:
http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htm
(I found using mouse wheel to scroll through objects works really well)
 
And there's the incredible 'Small, very small potatoes' comparison stills here:

_http://digg.com/d1ofQT
 
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