Gigapixels Of Andromeda - 8K/60fps Remaster [2021]

The point of this video was not to make people feel insignificant. It was to inspire awe for the scale of things that are out of our reach, but more importantly provide context for where we live, hopefully in a way that provokes a deeper appreciation for the things that ARE within our reach here on Spaceship Earth.

While we all may be utterly meaningless on the scale of the universe, that is not the scale of our everyday reality. We live on Earth, with other humans. And each time you show love to a friend, family member, or stranger, your significance is made more profound, in a way that is very much meaningful in the context of our existence as humans. The stars will never care about you -- but the people who you share your love with will.

[djafrika]

What fascinates me the most is that wherever you look, you see a star...
But if you would sit in a space craft and fly into any direction, you would fly millions of light years in a straight line not hitting any obstacle...
It's mind shattering how vast the space between the stars actually is...

[rhouser]

You know someone over there is looking at the Milky Way saying “Someone over there is probably looking at us” This image blows my mind every single time I watch this!

[bblancer]

Is there somebody in the Andromeda Galaxy, watching "Gigapixels of the Milky Way"....and wondering? Watching and wondering, just like we are?

[squashhead]

Never been so blown away.
Always looked at this image thinking that was visual noise.
Little did I know it was the unfathomable scale of a galaxy looking me dead in the face.

[gary-]

Clearly one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my entire life. Thank you!

[ricklayeux]

I'm glad I lived long enough to see this Universe it is a beautiful thing. Respect.

[StuartAxe]

Every one of those stars is about 5 to 10 light YEARS apart. Absolutely mind boggling..

[kochedicoes]

For you wondering what the guy in the background is saying: Astronomer Carl Sagan:

The spacecraft was a long way from home.

I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point of light, a lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the other points of light Voyager would see: nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely because of the obscurity of our world thus revealed, such a picture might be worth having.

So, here they are: a mosaic of squares laid down on top of the planets in a background smattering of more distant stars. Because of the reflection of sunlight off the spacecraft, the Earth seems to be sitting in a beam of light, as if there were some special significance to this small world; but it's just an accident of geometry and optics. There is no sign of humans in this picture: not our reworking of the Earth's surface; not our machines; not ourselves. From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalisms is nowhere in evidence. We are too small. On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential: a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.

[willem]

To be alive, to love, to experience joy and connection, and also pain and sorrow, is a miracle. Enjoy it, don't kill yourself, spiritually and/or physically. Let the miracle of life be your anchor, your safe place, your refuge.
Greet the person that walks past you on the sidewalk. Make your bed after you get up, cook your own dinner then do the washing up. Open your mail and don't talk to people who won't listen to you. Free yourself from your childhood trauma.
Love yourself, in a humble way.

[EmergentStardust]

The original version of this video has been my favorite video for 5 years. I watch it regularly. I love that it has been remastered!
I prefer the original soundtrack, which was stunning - just like the visuals, but the music here is also fantastic.

[Markus_Andrew]

The original video sent me, this remastered version sent me even further. My breath has been taken yet again. Thank you so much!
I also love your sentiments in the description. As a life-long amateur astronomer, those feelings have matched my own for many years now. Infinitesimal beings we may be, but we are the stuff of the universe made manifest in order to experience and learn about itself. As Einstein once put it, "A physicist is an atom's way of learning about atoms". We are not IN the universe. We ARE the universe, incarnate. Here's another quote I like, from Carl Sagan's novel, _Contact:_ "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love".

[alexsvr]

This is so emotional, one of those things that once you see them you will never forget. Thanks ever so much.

[knarftrakiul]

Are those tiny little micro dots I'm speechless...this just hit me like a sledgehammer...every dot is a star then think of all the planets and moons ...Wow

[fire]

To say there is no life elsewhere is to take a spoonful of our ocean and say there are no fish in the sea

[hpfan]

I think this really puts into perspective just how big space is. You can know the numbers and the science but you can never really grasp the vastness of space without a visual. This is one of the best visuals of the scale of space out there.

[ryen]

The best thing about this video is the perspective it gives; You get to see what Andromeda looks like from a first person point of view and where it is in relation to earth and all the other stars visible to us. Then it zooms in to show the incredible distances and details involved with this huge collage created by Hubble. Wonderful production here thank you so much!

[MysteryScienceGaming]

What's even crazier is when you see this picture and consider the eventual collision between Andromeda, and the Milk Way. Space is so big that the odds of any planet or star colliding is essentially 0%.

[carsonosrac]

How can an image be so beautiful yet so scary at the same time

[OrcaStree]

A quarter of one galaxy and all you see is a cloud consisting of billions of stars. There are endless galaxies even bigger than Andromeda. The universe is so damn big we can't even observe all of it. What we can see is no doubt an inconceivable fraction of what the universe actually is. Mind blowing

[jamesdavies]

ive come back to this incredible video every few years since its release. it still fills me with the same awe.
now do it with the James Webb :D