Zoom into the Center of Our Galaxy

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This video sequence zooms into the Hubble Space Telescope view of the galactic core. Hubble's infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at its core. Except for a few blue, foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster, the most massive and densest stellar cluster in our galaxy. Located 27,000 light-years away, this region is so packed with stars, it is equivalent to having a million suns crammed into the volume of space between us and our closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. At the very hub of our galaxy, this star cluster surrounds the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, which is about 4 million times the mass of our sun.

CREDITS:
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI);
Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, UKSTU/AAO, NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech), Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), T. Do and A. Ghez (UCLA), and V. Bajaj (STScI)

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It is so hard to even attempt to understand the size of the universe, when even our own galaxy is so incredibly massive but is only one of billions if not trillions of other galaxies. Just blows my mind

MaTtRoSiTy
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The scale of the universe is impossible to wrap your head around.

mb
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It's amazing to me the amount of stars and they all look like they're really close to each other, when in reality there's a huge distance from one to another. Amazing...

fnlzero
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Each one of these billions white dots is a star like our sun. Each one have planet revolving around them. One galaxy out of billions. Amazing.

smith
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I am Indian 🇮🇳 love this, exploring Universe

munishyadav
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A question that I had - why is it so hard to "see" the black hole that lies at the centre of our galaxy when we've already imaged the black hole of galaxy M87 (that is much farther away)?

ShayaanKhan
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This is simply mind-boggling. We humans are truly insignificant in comparison....and this is before we take into consideration the size of the known universe and not simply our own galaxy.

adobemastr
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Sliding through video's time bar also looks amazing 👌 😊

like zooming zoooom, zoom, zooom

ashokupadhyay
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Why doe it look like the video has parallex?

falconsatl
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This is just one side of our galaxy.. Imagine the how many stars on other side.

ashwinraut
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Space the final frontier, these are the voyages of the starship enterprise 😀

imerth
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0:34 GLACIERS MELTING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 🎶

caroline-rghx
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Looks much more uniform then I expected. So how much the avarange density or concentration of stars change from the outer parts to the center?

S....
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Is the galaxy rotating clockwise or contra clockwise ?

belajarbahasa
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This IS PERFECT!!!
Keep THIS ON YOUTUBE FOREVER!!!!

markclowdus
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the fact that there is a supermassive black hole there it makes me crazy and how you cannot see it and see what it does to nearby stars and mabe planets.she eats them and becoming much more biger as she finds more matter to eat untill she will stop finding stars to eat and she will shrink and die and the fact how all these objects are staying in a spiral shape turning around the center and not escaping except mabe some few it blows my mind how this thing could be accompliced by nature or by a big creator, what ever you like...dark matter and dark energy is the next blowing mind scenario that keeps them in shape...

observer
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Fantastic.
But an impossible human Voyage. Perhaps in the Future... 2500, 3000

patriciocristobalgallardoz
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But where is the black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy ? It has to be a big space without any star I believe.

mlpadha
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We are suspended orbiting an abyss that could easily swallow the world but we kinda just act like it isn’t there.

zetazimmer
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I agree that we can look back in time when it takes the light from distant galaxies millions of years to reach us but what I don't agree with is the fact that galaxies are still forming and not just the ones close to us. So how can we tell the difference between them? There must be a direction that points to the beginning of creation (older galaxies) and one that points away from the beginning (newer galaxies).

MsDWatters