Zooming in on the heart of the Milky Way

This zoom video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We then dive into the dusty central region to take a much closer look. There lurks a 4-million solar mass black hole, surrounded by a swarm of stars orbiting rapidly. We first see the stars in motion, thanks to 26 years of data from ESO's telescopes. We then see an even closer view of one of the stars, known as S2, passing very close to the black hole in May 2018. The final part shows a simulation of the motions of the stars.

Credit:
ESO/GRAVITY Collaboration

[praticm]

I lost my mind when it said "Closest approach-20 billion kilometres"

[daviidmtz]

I can feel my life being just an instant within the eternity of cosmos, I can feel my last day getting closer and it's only me who'll ever know that I was once here

[ALMarkAZ]

If anyone tries to convince me that there is no other life in the universe. I will show him this video and ask him to count each star.

[deepspace]

who would have thought, that pale blue dot in the Milky Way has billions of stories, diverse life forms etc.

[Kadu]

Meu sonho entrar numa nave viajar entre as galáxias e conhecer seus mistérios e novas civilizações

[billycollins]

Our problems seem so extra small compared to the universe. It's crazy to think that in all that mess somewhere out there in the universe we exist on a planet called earth. Proven that the big bang didn't create us so the universe is just one big crazy event of randomness. If I had to make a logical guess on our existence, I would say something intelligent created us just as we humans create.

[englishsongs]

I like the telescope was used to take the video.

[Naunet]

The closest to earth star is about 4, 3 light years away, so yep... this is waaay faster than the speed of light. If the camera would move at the speed of light, the video would've taken longer than humanities existence.

[MrTortugaa]

This makes me feel like I sometimes take life a bit too serious.

[saitejakodali]

The zooming in is actually faster than speed of light

[RDBb]

We are so insignificant in this vast universe. But we live as though we are most important person in this world.

[shawn.f]

There has to be other life somewhere out there.. there just has to be

[taufiqutomo]

Imagine you can fly to distant stars... but then one day you forgot your way back home.

[Boulos-cbun]

Out of all the people who have ever lived on this earth we are the fortunate few to witness such magnificent things...

[Shridhar]

Zooming in 25000 light years in just 2 minutes is a remarkable achievement from the astro scientists.

[centauria]

Shout out to the cameraman who risked his life to go out into space just to get us near to see the Black hole of our Milky Way Galaxy!

[drka]

The pale blue dot. All human history, discoveries, lives, emotions, love, anger, the good and the bad, the wars - everything happened on the pale blue dot.

[radhitawidyasmara]

Can't wait for James Webb teleskop

[syedbilala]

To be frank! This music takes me deeply inside this!!!

[YoO]

"closest approach 20billion km" thats me around Girls