NASA Video Shows Motion of Stars

To human eyes, stars seem like some of the most unmoving objects in the universe. From the perspective of thousands of years, however, they swarm like bees.

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped bring to life such motion in 100,000 stars drifting around within a distant celestial blob called Omega Centauri, a globular cluster orbiting the Milky Way galaxy about 16,000 light-years from Earth.

To create the video above, Hubble took photos of Omega Centauri from 2002 to 2006. But the video doesn't show that period. Instead, it's a computer-powered projection of the next 10,000 years deduced from the snapshots.

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[simioneitor]

Wow, Can't see this without keepin me from asking myself:
How did God Created this so Perfectly!

[albertchandler]

and they don't run into each other, that's amazing.

[Jimmy-yvkl]

total and utter chaos its no way with a 10, 000 year gap do we now see any stars colliding

[OhZoneFan]

Speechless? It looks nice and all, but I'm not speechless.

[Username]

@theotherdumbblonde

What's causing them to move around is their inertia. Objects in space (and in general) move unless acted on by an external force. The only external force present in space that acts on those stars is the combined gravity of all the stars present.

Also, bear in mind this is a projection of 10, 000 years from 3 years of data. It's best guesswork, not the final word.

[digitalblasphemy]

@Tripectorus what probes have nasa brought back? i dont understand what you mean by magnetic and the string analogy. the point of the question i asked was that you were asserting we havent been past jupiter and the voyager spaceprobes are billions of miles past jupiter. they are not coming home if that is what you meant by the string.

[joebin]

truly speechless.. why we do not talk about this topic more is beyond me.

[BlinkinFirefly]

Just the answer to a question I had. How do stars move in a big cluster, if they move at all? Wow, do they move a lot!! Thank you <3

[ShaneSweeneyTech]

Each of the bright blue stars you see are results of collisions. They are called blue stragglers. There are also most likely other collision artifacts that you cannot see called black holes. The collisions really don't happen very often though, it's just that these cluster are very old and the stars are allot further apart than they seem to be from our perspective.

[lorIorIor]

@AssemblerGuy not that often, as I recall. There is *a lot* of space betwee stars. Even when galaxies collide (google pics that) hardly any or no stars crash into each other. A shame, because that would be awesome

[ziparbul]

@67bandit67, the Sun is our closest star, you know the one that makes life on Earth possible. 'Sun' is merely one of its names, your argument is like trying to address all people by the same name. e.g. A Fred is a Fred and not a human?

[MetalxXxMayhem]

@theotherdumbblonde Yes, they all move independent of each other. But each individuals gravity will affect each other star.

[chubsta]

Reminds me of Foundation and Earth! Go Gaia!

[msms]

what is this they are movengi all around with out system ?

[valhala]

Well I guess everything in the Universe is in motion. Nothing is perfectly still. Some things move fast, some things mover very slow but they all move.

[sunkissedbeach]

You would think with the billions of dollars that NASA has received over the last 55 years plus, they could show REAL photos and REAL HD video. I take video all of the time of the stars with my Nikon cool pix P900

[ikoronduka]

we could use this to adjust for oru galatic gps incase we need to go to another star system

[AzzaradinBT]

@jerjerjason Well, that depends. Motion is relative. You say everything is in motion, but relative to what?

[digitalblasphemy]

@Tripectorus where are the voyager space probes?

[stickmanpwner]

fucking blue stragglers. they're so shiny.