CEERS: Flight to Maisie's Galaxy

This 3D visualization portrays about 5,000 galaxies within a small portion of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey, which gathered data from a region known as the Extended Groth Strip. As the camera flies away from our viewpoint, each second amounts to traveling 200 million light-years into the data set, and seeing 200 million years further into the past. The appearances of the galaxies change, reflecting the fact that more distant objects are seen at earlier times in the universe, when galaxies were less developed. The video ends at Maisie’s Galaxy, which formed only 390 million years after the big bang, or about 13.4 billion years ago.

Music: Spring Morning, Maarten Schellekens CC BY-NC 4.0

Credits:

Visualization: Frank Summers (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Science: Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (RIT), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin)

[marcpym]

This is great! I've seen many deep field images before, but without movement, I did not properly understand what was close and what was far away. This really helped me get a more intuitive understanding of distances.

[TheStockwell]

When music plays on top of astronomical imagery, I always expect to hear the voice of either Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, or Ray Bradbury. 🥲

[sweetsyerra]

Best viewed at the slowest speed to really appreciate everything!

[Akiro]

Esto me hizo llorar imaginar los mundos y aventuras que existen en cada Galaxia, joder conquistemos la nuestra primero, la humanidad si mirara hacia las estrellas y se uniera en una gran misión todo evolucionaria hacia las estrellas, pero mi madre me enseño antes de abandonar una casa hay que dejarla limpia.
Limpiemos el planeta y miremos a las estrellas.

[MrStimpanzee]

Wonderful animation! I enjoy the context it provides for the depth of the original image.

[thelostone]

It really gives me the sense of time and space! This was a beautiful animation.

[anthonyg]

infinite universes and somehow I still have zero bitches

[JB-ufle]

Holy shmoly this is beautiful! Thank you, I can't stop watching it!

[AndiRAin]

The fact that this video hasn't reached a billion views is indicative of a profound failure within our education system.

[yesirdgz]

Hermoso... Somos parte de esta maravilla. ❤

[NeonsStyleHD]

Be interesting to correct the colour of it for red shifting so we see it as it actually is!

[zabsar]

We built the universe with ˹great˺ might, and We are certainly expanding ˹it.

[rossyfelix]

En que hemisferio esta esta galaxia, he tratado de buscar pero no aparece

[PunksterOS]

Prepare to go to *Warp 2, Ensign... Engage.

_(*plays at 2x speed)_

[CasinoMan]

So very interesting and amazing. All our answers are out there.

[rossyfelix]

What part of the hemisphere of the sky is it in?

[graphite]

And somewhere on Maisie's galaxy an intelligence has made an animation showing the flight to the Milky way

[phantommide]

I have a galaxy??? 🥺 (jk)
My dad sent this to me, as we don't see my name a lot. It was really cool to see this visual and accompanied by beautiful music. I admit, I got a bit teary eyed..❤ what a wonderful, massive universe..

[josephthomas]

fascinating to see a galaxy that has not existed for billions of years!

[Life_]

I wonder if another telescope from that galaxy is looking back at ours and see a similiar image.