How the Milky Way Got Its Name
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
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Like many words we use today, the English name of our galaxy is derived from its Latin name: Via Lactea. Translated, that means “the road of milk.” The Romans actually got the name from the Greeks, who called our galaxy “galaxias kyklos” or “milky circle.” Incidentally, the Greek name is also where we get the term “galaxy.”
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All this talk of milky ways and galaxies is making me hungry for chocolate.
So the milk chocolate Galaxy Bar is named after...milk. As in Galactose.
So an intergalactic empire is etymologically...an instruction between milks.
It is definitely not called "Milchstrauss" in German...
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In Norwigen its MelkeVeien or milkway
Hearing people try to pronounce a word in my language is quite funny. Melkehevien instead of melkeveien. Might start to say that instead :D
Great as always, but kind of wish you'd finished with the galaxy song number from Monty Python. Ahh well....I'll just look it up ;)
No matter what I always think of the candy bar.🍫
Short and informative, really liking these videos. Though as others have pointed out, you really do butcher the pronunciations. :p
Yes, learned in my Science with Lab requirement back at the University.
I'm a Classicist, and I remember the myth this way: Heracles bit Hera's breast.
Kumova slama is also Serbian name for milky way. Story for best men's straw (Kumova slama) was that a best men stopped by his best men's house right before Christmas to ask for some straws to borrow. However, his best men told him that he had only enough for him and that he needs straws for his own Christmas day and that all of the straws he can give is to our Lord. Not to be deterred, best men stole all the straws, loosing some on the way. That was God's way to punish the unfaithful best man and to leave the trail of straws on the heavens to the mankind as the warning. [if anyone asks what a heck these people are doing with the straws, well, we as Orthodox, on Christmas Eve put the straws on the floor of our houses as remembrance how Christ was born to our world, among shepherds, in the cave on the simple bed of straws]
those that call it a field, what do they call comets & meteors..? "Grasshoppers of light"??
how do you really pronounce via lactea?I watched another documentary and the commentator pronounces it as Va-ya lac-ti-ya
In Hindi, it's called Akash Ganga. River of the Sky.
Can you make again this video in little bit hindi.
In Malay and Indo is called *bima sakti* :I
Not the Milky Way candy bar, color me astonished. (Joke)
your way of pronouncing "Linnunrata" sounded something like lynaráta or something xd
the correct way would be something like Lin-nun(not nAn, nun!)-ra-ta (Not tha, ta!), if you're not from Finland it's going to be tough
But props for trying and just generally mentioning the Finnish mythology! He's doing well with the r sound which seems to be difficult to a lot of English speakers. (I don't think the Finnish spelling aka tavutus is going to help English speakers to understand the pronunciation)
did anyone else think this was about the chocolate bar?
Vetrarbraut as in "winter-way" No, the word "braut" is not pronounced as "braten" at all. Being Icelandic I should know :P
Correction, we are not in the middle of the milky way. As soon as I heard you say that, I had to correct you and find a reputable source. www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/620057main_milkyway_full.jpg
I like that chocolate bar.
But how fast is the universe moving?
You have now discovered Relativity. You can only speak of speeds with respect to some frame of reference. The universe is moving at whatever speed you want, relative to whatever frame you want. The closest thing we have to an objective zero-frame is the average of the cosmic microwave background, which is, under current theories of cosmology, almost exactly the average speed of the universe. In the CMB frame, the universe as a whole would be expected to be moving at almost zero speed... But those same theories indicate that the universe shouldn't have any matter in it so we're still sort of ironing out the bumps.
It's interesting how we can see the milky way.. yet we are inside the milky way.. so really where ever you look is the milky way.. but since we're on the edge.. we can look towards the centre and that's where we see the most stuff out there and that's what people see as the "milky way".. even though that's just the most dense view from our perspective being on the edge and everywhere we see out there is the milky way.
Not true - It took a long time to work out where we were in the galaxy precisely because the milky way has a similar visible concentration in all directions along the galactic plane. Early theorists placed us very close to the centre of the galaxy for this reason.
We now know that the enormous concentration that we should see around the centre of the galaxy (in Saggitarius) is hidden by large dust lanes which obscure the galactic centre.
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Just to clarify, why is there at least visibly, a clump of stuff people think of as the milky way? it's dust lanes?
That's because the galaxy is planar and the distribution of stars is not even in all directions. If you look outside the galactic plane, you see less light than if you look in the galactic plane. Whether you look "inwards" to the centre, "outwards" to the rim, or "sideways", if you're in the galactic plane, you'll see many distant and unresolved stars that look like a milky cloud.
Dust lanes are not visible except when they are in regions of extreme star activity such as HII regions where stars are forming. In these regions, you see ionized gases, which glow slightly and produce glowing nebulae.
In a "normal" dust lane, the dust is dark and blocks out light from behind it, and this is why we see large dark patches in the visible milky way - those are relatively close patches of interstellar dust. As I said there is notably a lot of dust in the saggitarius constellation which meant it took a long time to identify that as the direction of the galactic centre.
I'm confused! didn't you say
"because the milky way has a similar visible concentration in all directions along the galactic plane."
but then in your last comment the reasoning for the clump we call the "milky way", is because
"the distribution of stars is not even in all directions"..
I think I'm missing something in my understanding here..
Correct, it is not even in all directions, but it is even in all directions *in the galactic plane*.
If you look "up or down" outside the galactic plane, you will see only local stars, and no significant milky background light of unresolved stars. A plane is two-dimensional. Think of it as a "disc" around us, which we see as the milky way. Outside the disc, it is much dimmer.
In Afrikaans (South African language) we call the milky way "die melkweg"
And indonesian said it's a Galaksi Bimasakti :v
Man i would love some milcky way for candy... oh you tought the galaxy? Thats okay if u tought about that
Torilla tavataan
Man do all of mankind have terrible names for our galaxy, the best one was probably the Winter Garden but even that is a rather dull two word name. It should be something more piffy like Pegasus or Andromeda.
I don’t understand this T-T
As a Norwegian person I had to rewind the video a little bit to understand what you said. The word is correct, but your pronunciation makes it difficult to understand.
As for a better way to pronounce the word I would suggest putting a small breathing room between the words "melke" and "veien".
Knots per hour? good grief! Also: all those speeds quoted at the end are meaningless without context, as in "...1000 miles per hour with respect to the Sun."
He did... He indicated his frame of reference for everything except the Earth's rotation, where he's quoting a tangential velocity at the equator. If I told you I'm moving around the sun at "x" kph I'm telling you my speed relative to the sun.
english language natives trying to pronounce swedish never ceases to be amusing ^^
lol..... vinter gejten
He butchered the Greek words as well.
And the Latin
and the German damn
The Norwegian is atrocious xD
So it was named by translating greek "galaxias" witch means milky way. And now we greeks have a problem because we call galaxias every galaxy in the universe. For example there is galaxias Andromeda. The problem is how to we call our galaxy in greek? Galaxy galaxias maybe 😂😂😂
The German name isn't pronounced milsh-strauss...
sorry but I gotta down vote this, that Swedish pronunciation was pure butchery :/
i'm disappointed, many cooler names than breast milk 🙄