I actually did it xD Here's how: 1. Turn off Procedurally generated galaxies. This will take the challenge easier. 2. Find a giant conglomeration of galaxies. This one should take up a good amount of the screen. 2b. Enter it from the left, with IC 1101 oriented so that its semi major axis is vertical. 3. Travel toward right until you find a large group of galaxies. This is the Virgo Cluster. Head towards its center until you find M87 and M86, two elliptical galaxies. (These should be somewhat far apart. If you instead see three elliptical galaxies touching, you're in the Coma Cluster. Head upward.) 4. Make M87, M86, and NGC 4431 form an equilateral triangle, with NGC 4431 on the top and M87 on the bottom left. 5. Go to NGC 4431 and look upward. You'll see two spiral galaxies close together; these are the Eyes Galaxies. 6. Approach them such that they appear edge-on. Look around for a white disk, which should come into view: NGC 4474. 7. Find the Whirlpool Galaxy. In SpaceEngine, it's located reasonably close to the Pinwheel Galaxy and another galaxy. Use parallax to find them; they won't move as much with respect to the foreground galaxies. 8. You can actually find the Milky Way from here. Orient the Whirlpool Galaxy so that its left-most spiral is oriented counterclockwise and the small galaxy it's interacting with oriented downward. Find a large dot with two smaller dots on top of it. That's the Milky Way, with the top two dots being the Magellanic Clouds. Done!
I have watched this video a few times and have to admit that this is an extremely impressive achievement, Anton. I believe you're the only person to have uploaded a video of the achievement, and probably the only person to have done it, period.
Isn't the pleiades nebula near earth though Couldn't you use that for navigation and i can remember roughly where earth is just when i locate the nebula the only problem is finding the earth after
I have imagined finding Earth from intergalactic space without navigation for years. I always thought that the view of the Magellanic clouds from Australia would be the key but it really isn't - it was all about Orion, Taurus and Sirius. Great visualisation!
Here's my method. I can consistently do this in less than 2 minutes. Step 1. Find Carina Nebula. You can usually see this as a pink light source from pretty far out. Fly above the galaxy until you notice it. Step 2. Go to the right of the nebula until you see another group of bright start. You'll see a large red nebula come into view. This is the Orion OB1 association. Step 3. Line up the three stars that make up Orion's belt. Step 4. Move backwards until you see Betelgeuse and Bellatrix and the Hyades cluster. Step 5. identify Alderbaran and line it up at the top left of the Hyades. Step 6. Move backwards until you see four brightish stars in a trapezium shape. Step 7. Go to the dimmest of the four, that is the Sun. The others are Alpha Centauri, Sirius and Procyon. Step 8. Find the third planet. And you're done.
@@simplylight4916 it depends on the direction from which you are looking, but yes, seen from one specific direction (or from the other side along one axis), our sun is obviously in a trapezium constellation. And yes, that's a fun fact to know. I didn't know that before...
Honestly this was really cool, using astronomy to find your way around the galaxy is really neat And placing our planet is context like that is so humbling
Congratulations. You found Earth while navigating around the galaxy at 99.9999999999999% the speed of light, making it seem like only 11 minutes passed. However, as you approach Earth, you discovered about 3 million years have passed. Bummer.
Anton Petrov I challenge you to go to another galaxy with clicking its star in the galaxy*not the milky way galaxy,and I think thats not the earth,it just similar to earth
At the start, I was like damn, this guy is gonna die trying to find our galaxy. But then you did your steps and it turned out being very interesting. Good job, keep up the good work
The Best Way (I haven`t watched yet) Deneb (Placing LMC over SMC and going close to MW over LMC. Finding Deneb (Brightest Star there ) and then the North America Nebula. Then the Orion constellation ( Barnards Loop) Then the Plejades Then the hyades Then Aldebaran Placing Aldebaranright in the Hyades. Then, if you know the constellation of nearby stars, you will 100% click on sun first time. (This needs me about 100 seconds in Space Engine)
*The Intergalactic Federation of Andromeda* =============================== Greetings citizens of Earth. I am the Leader of the Federation, Tatzir who has been watching your planet for years. I am speaking with a translator to speak in your Common Language, English. Where we come from, we speak of an ancient tongue of the Samarians, a civilization which you do not know much of. You want to know why? We are that civilization. We were enlightened when some aliens from Andromeda, the Atlanteans met us. You know of them. The legends, the myths; they're real. All real. I tell you that right now. I cannot reveal much more. I have to leave, now. Good day Earthlings. We may speak another time when your governments are ready to reveal our existence. EDIT: I'm not sure what that message was. I randomly got it on my computer and I have to tell you, it was so strange to get it. Anyways, this actually is fake. If you liked my comment, please like it! One of my careers I want to do in the future is be a part-time writer so if you enjoyed it, a like will be helpful. Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!
I actually did this. When I went in the milky way, the only thing I saw was random generated stars and clusters that I did not know. But then, I found something I knew. Omega Centauri. I was still 15000 lightyears away from home, but at least I'm closer. My next stop was the Carina Nebula. After that, I found Westerlund somehow. I knew that I was close to the right area, because I found lots of real stars and almost no random generated ones. Then I found Stephenson. Then CK carinae. Then I was lost. So I did a restart and turned of procedural objects. When I went in, I almost instantly clicked on Westerlund. Then I found Deneb which brings me a lot closer. I also found Mu cephei and Stephenson. Next stop was Sadr. I decided click on the nebula I found. It was the North America nebula. Then I found VV cephei. Fun fact: VV cephei used to be the largest known star all the way back in 2005. But then I found the Pleiades. Next stop was Bellatrix. But I could not find any closer star, so I gave up.
If we are lost in space, Anton is the one you should look for! Mark my words people from 2045 (if that’s the date Ray kurzweil says human can manipulate genes and live forever)
Does this "game" have a search box filter for types of objects? Like I want to automatically search for a temperate planet, a desert planet, an icy planet, a gas planet, such type of nebula, etc... (I would like to use this program to gather visuals for my roleplaying game...)
I find carina nebula, and then i head into the bottom right of the rift below the carina nebula. Then I kinda just find orions belt, zoom out to where betelgeuse and rigel are at opposite points, find bellatrix, then aldebaran. I zoom out and then there is sirius. I have a video on it, where i find it in like 3 minutes :D
Fun fact for flat earthers: if we're in the center of the universe, and we're in a galaxy, so we arent in the center, our galaxy is. We might not be at center, but everything in milky way is round sometimes oval, and if you go in space for enough, you'll see a curve. so we ARE at the center, but not directly at the center
Imagine you are lost in space with a ship and you see the milky way withoit communications but you realize you watched this video yesterday and find home by anton's guides :>
now we learn geography to know where roughly is our country. in future we will learn sonething like Milky-way-graphy (?) to find our planet in milky way :D that's what i call a level-up XD
Hey Anton, I have a small idea (yes I know many people have said this 😒) but can you try use US2 to create your very own realistic solar system? You know, planets moons etc, and possible try make a habitable planet in the system as well 😄! Thanks for reading!
Everyone seeing this - Space Engine is now on Steam! You don't have to buy it, but the more people add it to their Wishlist, the more people will see it on Steam. So if you want to spread awareness of the Space Engine, add it to your Wishlist now!
Yeah, and then a little later he says he hopes there are no aliens out there because if there is they'll enslave us because they'll be just like humans, basically evil.
I always wondered how to find our way back home if we visited our next nearest star neighbour. My first thoughts were to just have a really good camera facing backwards as we fly away from earth and our solar system.
is space engine as in depth as Universe Sandbox in terms of the freedom to experiment and what have you? or is Space Engine more of an interactive encyclopedia than a sandbox sim?
Is it possible to have life on a planet orbiting a black hole due to hawking radiation or maybe heat because of gravitational influence as we have it on europa?
![GALAXIES MOVING FASTER THAN LIGHT? [Space Engine]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nUhz4GWNEuU/mqdefault.jpg)
This man knows the galaxy more than I know my town
M L oof
He knows quadrillions of miles while i cant memorize what my house from 4 years ago looked like
He knows the whole universe while i cant remember my Florida house
try to find the milky way from the edge of the observable universe!
Is it even possible in this game
space engine generates in a cube with milky way in the middle
Its so hard!!
Rogelio E thats impossible
That'll be a nightmare to find.
"he's too powerful to be left alive!"
This is literally like finding a grain of sand in a infinite desert.
Ok, then what arm is earth in a galaxy photo, where is alpha centauri? And where the heck is the sun, on a ga,axy photo.
@@ima.get.tiv.2 What are you trying to prove
So you're saying... If you were in a ship with broken equipment but outfit with a warp drive...You'd be able to navigate the Milky Way and find home?
lemmingscanfly5 pretty much
I’m impressed.
in 10mins
(assuming his ship is that fast)
lemmingscanfly5 by the time we have that technology we will have multiple homes all around the galaxy
but you guys there sure know XD
I dare you to find the Milky Way all the way from IC 1101
Hello wonderful person....I love how he begins all of the UA-cam videos like that
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I actually did it xD
Here's how:
1. Turn off Procedurally generated galaxies. This will take the challenge easier.
2. Find a giant conglomeration of galaxies. This one should take up a good amount of the screen.
2b. Enter it from the left, with IC 1101 oriented so that its semi major axis is vertical.
3. Travel toward right until you find a large group of galaxies. This is the Virgo Cluster. Head towards its center until you find M87 and M86, two elliptical galaxies. (These should be somewhat far apart. If you instead see three elliptical galaxies touching, you're in the Coma Cluster. Head upward.)
4. Make M87, M86, and NGC 4431 form an equilateral triangle, with NGC 4431 on the top and M87 on the bottom left.
5. Go to NGC 4431 and look upward. You'll see two spiral galaxies close together; these are the Eyes Galaxies.
6. Approach them such that they appear edge-on. Look around for a white disk, which should come into view: NGC 4474.
7. Find the Whirlpool Galaxy. In SpaceEngine, it's located reasonably close to the Pinwheel Galaxy and another galaxy. Use parallax to find them; they won't move as much with respect to the foreground galaxies.
8. You can actually find the Milky Way from here. Orient the Whirlpool Galaxy so that its left-most spiral is oriented counterclockwise and the small galaxy it's interacting with oriented downward. Find a large dot with two smaller dots on top of it. That's the Milky Way, with the top two dots being the Magellanic Clouds.
Done!
@@IloveRumania so if I turn off procedurally generated galaxy's, does that show only the real galaxy's in this game
@@hevcoffee Yes
lol I thought I was cool being able to find my house in about 10 seconds zooming on Google Earth
I have watched this video a few times and have to admit that this is an extremely impressive achievement, Anton. I believe you're the only person to have uploaded a video of the achievement, and probably the only person to have done it, period.
Isn't the pleiades nebula near earth though
Couldn't you use that for navigation and i can remember roughly where earth is just when i locate the nebula the only problem is finding the earth after
I have imagined finding Earth from intergalactic space without navigation for years. I always thought that the view of the Magellanic clouds from Australia would be the key but it really isn't - it was all about Orion, Taurus and Sirius. Great visualisation!
Here's my method. I can consistently do this in less than 2 minutes.
Step 1. Find Carina Nebula. You can usually see this as a pink light source from pretty far out. Fly above the galaxy until you notice it.
Step 2. Go to the right of the nebula until you see another group of bright start. You'll see a large red nebula come into view. This is the Orion OB1 association.
Step 3. Line up the three stars that make up Orion's belt.
Step 4. Move backwards until you see Betelgeuse and Bellatrix and the Hyades cluster.
Step 5. identify Alderbaran and line it up at the top left of the Hyades.
Step 6. Move backwards until you see four brightish stars in a trapezium shape.
Step 7. Go to the dimmest of the four, that is the Sun. The others are Alpha Centauri, Sirius and Procyon.
Step 8. Find the third planet. And you're done.
so on another planet, our sun would be in the “trapezium” constellation? Idk why but I find that interesting
@@simplylight4916 it depends on the direction from which you are looking, but yes, seen from one specific direction (or from the other side along one axis), our sun is obviously in a trapezium constellation. And yes, that's a fun fact to know. I didn't know that before...
Thanks I will need this when I get shipwrecked outside the milky way 1000 years from now :D
Wth I literally came up with this exact same method independently a few weeks ago XD
Increasing star magnitude is not cheating. Anyone who has put on a pair of night vision goggles should know this ☺.
breathing in supplimental oxygen also helps, especially if you are at high altitude to get a good view in the first place
Congratulations Star Navigator Petrov. You have been promoted to Admiral of the Fleet for your bravery and good understanding of the galaxy.
People today: Geoguessr guess the country.
Anton 6 years ago: Find planet Earth in the Galaxy of 100 000 000 000 stars.
The question mark scares me..."WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO YOURSELF?!"
Honestly this was really cool, using astronomy to find your way around the galaxy is really neat
And placing our planet is context like that is so humbling
I've done this a few times starting outside the Virgo cluster. great job!
Same thing! It was honestly quite challenging and rewarding. What landmarks (or I guess spacemarks?) did you use?
Nice job Anton. I challenge you to find Earth out a cluster of nearby galaxies without your star identifier. Good luck!
it would become possible in the future when there are permanent galaxies in Space Engine. right now they're procedurally generated
+Anton Petrov (WhatDaMath) Ok, I didn't know that before😂
Anton Petrov yes!
Dude... THAT IS F***ING AMAZING!!! How did u do that?!
Congratulations. You found Earth while navigating around the galaxy at 99.9999999999999% the speed of light, making it seem like only 11 minutes passed. However, as you approach Earth, you discovered about 3 million years have passed. Bummer.
SIRIUSLY!
lol
9:56 When you don't pre-programme your hyperspace computer.
I’ve been watching your videos when I pass out for the last 3 weeks. Very informative. Thanks!!
Once, I was flying through Milky-way in Space Engine and found our Solar system by chance.
So if aliens ever leave you stranded outside the galaxy with a starship at least you know you can find your way back home.
The Carina Nebula is the lighthouse of the galaxy. If you can find it in the night sky, then you can find your way home.
OMG I'm insanely in love with you. I hope you get to motivate more people like me!!!
Sunny Park thank you! Love right back at you :)
+Anton Petrov (WhatDaMath) I'm a huge fan please do mine please please please please!!!!👻😵💩:-
MOONIC he motivated me
find milky way start from end of universe and find milky way then find earth
then marry him :d
Wow, so cool! You are a professional. Thanks for the great video! :)
thank you
+Anton Petrov (WhatDaMath) Anton you are epic!
Anton Petrov I challenge you to go to another galaxy with clicking its star in the galaxy*not the milky way galaxy,and I think thats not the earth,it just similar to earth
wow... if we every need a navigators.... ur the one to call....
Nitin Vangara SPACE GHOST NAVIGATOR BUSTERS
battlestar galactica needs him.
OMGGGGGG CANT BELIEVE YOU FOUND EARTH! THEY MUST BRING THIS GUY TO EXPLORE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
I thought sirius was 8 light years away
thats dumb.
Harry Evett i watch your videos
I subbed to hou
Harry Evett are you sirius about that?
1BillionMarbles lol haha
how about find our home if we lost in milky way and we cannot go outside the milky way.
you will probably get lost. there is so many galaxies
+Logic Gamer do you even science???
+Logic Gamer I mean, shit. I think I've never seen someone so dumb before oh my god.
I just ask about deep space Navigation...
HOW AM I STUPID
this might be the most dangerous video ever (when intercepted by aliens)
Wow yes
By the time they'd be able to "intercept" this video, they'd be well aware of Earth already, so this video would be useless to them.
At the start, I was like damn, this guy is gonna die trying to find our galaxy. But then you did your steps and it turned out being very interesting. Good job, keep up the good work
Using the line of sight from the pleiades to the hyades and aldebaran, you will see a bright blue star Sirius. Around it is the sun
We need this in GeoGuessr.
I love how he finds the earth and loses it immediately.
great job, awesome video. good way to show off your knowledge of the stars.
The Best Way (I haven`t watched yet)
Deneb (Placing LMC over SMC and going close to MW over LMC. Finding Deneb (Brightest Star there ) and then the North America Nebula.
Then the Orion constellation ( Barnards Loop)
Then the Plejades
Then the hyades
Then Aldebaran
Placing Aldebaranright in the Hyades.
Then, if you know the constellation of nearby stars, you will 100% click on sun first time.
(This needs me about 100 seconds in Space Engine)
Your way is much harder xd
You found Beetlejuice! Ford Prefect is gonna be so happy to know that you have found his home planet XD
I just subscribed to you and I find your videos very interesting you deserve more subscribers
thank you
I agree👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'm officially hooked on your channel, I look forward to the next video :). keep up the amazing work.
Here from the latest video. It's interesting hearing the different energy from the informative videos haha
Take a 10 second tought on how little the chances were. He was looking for a planet in a fricking galaxy
*The Intergalactic Federation of Andromeda*
===============================
Greetings citizens of Earth. I am the Leader of the Federation, Tatzir who has been watching your planet for years. I am speaking with a translator to speak in your Common Language, English. Where we come from, we speak of an ancient tongue of the Samarians, a civilization which you do not know much of. You want to know why? We are that civilization. We were enlightened when some aliens from Andromeda, the Atlanteans met us. You know of them. The legends, the myths; they're real. All real. I tell you that right now.
I cannot reveal much more. I have to leave, now. Good day Earthlings. We may speak another time when your governments are ready to reveal our existence.
EDIT: I'm not sure what that message was. I randomly got it on my computer and I have to tell you, it was so strange to get it. Anyways, this actually is fake. If you liked my comment, please like it! One of my careers I want to do in the future is be a part-time writer so if you enjoyed it, a like will be helpful. Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!
Hey josh bray the alien
bush made 9/11
+Vegeta Hello Price Vegeta.
I for one welcome our Annunaki overlords
Dude that was incredible navigating through our galaxy to find earth that wasn't easy I would of died in space for sure
I actually did this. When I went in the milky way, the only thing I saw was random generated stars and clusters that I did not know. But then, I found something I knew. Omega Centauri. I was still 15000 lightyears away from home, but at least I'm closer. My next stop was the Carina Nebula. After that, I found Westerlund somehow. I knew that I was close to the right area, because I found lots of real stars and almost no random generated ones. Then I found Stephenson. Then CK carinae. Then I was lost. So I did a restart and turned of procedural objects. When I went in, I almost instantly clicked on Westerlund. Then I found Deneb which brings me a lot closer. I also found Mu cephei and Stephenson. Next stop was Sadr. I decided click on the nebula I found. It was the North America nebula. Then I found VV cephei. Fun fact: VV cephei used to be the largest known star all the way back in 2005. But then I found the Pleiades. Next stop was Bellatrix. But I could not find any closer star, so I gave up.
It feels sooo peaceful to find home
If we are lost in space, Anton is the one you should look for! Mark my words people from 2045 (if that’s the date Ray kurzweil says human can manipulate genes and live forever)
Awesome that you don't back out when getting challenged.
"In 7 lightyears, turn onto Antares street"
I love those lost in space videos!
If i ever decide to go exploring space i want you to be my spaceguide.
just don't ask me to drive you anywhere :) i'm horrible on an actual road
+Anton Petrov (WhatDaMath) luckily they don't have roads floating throughout space XD
That's one hell of a feat!! I love space engine!!
Anton, after watching this video I 100% believe you are a professional scientist .
These taxi drivers from pre-GPS days are amasing!
this was a great challenge. i loved it.
What’s mind blowing is he is going way faster than the speed of light moving in this simulation. The universe is huge.
Does this "game" have a search box filter for types of objects? Like I want to automatically search for a temperate planet, a desert planet, an icy planet, a gas planet, such type of nebula, etc... (I would like to use this program to gather visuals for my roleplaying game...)
Kind of
I find carina nebula, and then i head into the bottom right of the rift below the carina nebula. Then I kinda just find orions belt, zoom out to where betelgeuse and rigel are at opposite points, find bellatrix, then aldebaran. I zoom out and then there is sirius. I have a video on it, where i find it in like 3 minutes :D
Brilliant concept for a video.
I'm glad that even you sometimes lose planets right behind you lol
Anton Petrov is a Guild Navigator. The spice allows him to navigate space without the need of computers.
Fun fact for flat earthers: if we're in the center of the universe, and we're in a galaxy, so we arent in the center, our galaxy is. We might not be at center, but everything in milky way is round sometimes oval, and if you go in space for enough, you'll see a curve. so we ARE at the center, but not directly at the center
Kinda terrifying to know there is a Galaxy just sitting there.... Wait....
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Going to hit Milky Way..
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Slowly.
Terrifying.
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Let hope science is right, and it doesnt kill any beautiful planets :0)
Aliens watching this: 🧿👄🧿
Wow, that was pretty amazing!
Hey wonderful Anton! This is another Person. I have a challenge. Find Earth from the vicinity of Sag A. Without jumping out of the galaxy.
Who saw the southern cross at 11:58?
I'm pretty blown away by this.
Anton screams “Galactic north is this way!”
Can you find the Bootes Void in Space Engine ?
i dont think its an actual object you can click on. So the only way to find it is to study galaxies next to it
Imagine you are lost in space with a ship and you see the milky way withoit communications but you realize you watched this video yesterday and find home by anton's guides :>
If you find this man inside the same alien space ship you were kidnapped in, you know you're returning to earth soon
Plateaus is also called matariki (New Zealand) and Subaru (Japan)
now we learn geography to know where roughly is our country. in future we will learn sonething like Milky-way-graphy (?) to find our planet in milky way :D
that's what i call a level-up XD
Parallax is such a clever idea.
It's like finding your house in google earth for the first time without an address.
Love the commentary, make more like this plz!!
This is so amazing yet so entertaining 😀 tnx for finding out planet btw🌍🌎🌏
Btw i challenge you to find our most nearby black hole 😁
@@superdeboer2021 I’d guess the centre of our galaxy
@@eeeee6431 No the 4,000 light-year distant black hole
Sagittarius A* is 26,000 light-years away
@@aquariumfish-i4h Entirely forgot I posted it. Yeah, I’ll look up the closest one
Nice work!
How about make a video were you build your own personal solar sistem from the very beggining? (building even the atmosphere of the planets)
Hey Anton, I have a small idea (yes I know many people have said this 😒) but can you try use US2 to create your very own realistic solar system? You know, planets moons etc, and possible try make a habitable planet in the system as well 😄! Thanks for reading!
ok I'll try to think of something, thanks
Everyone seeing this - Space Engine is now on Steam! You don't have to buy it, but the more people add it to their Wishlist, the more people will see it on Steam. So if you want to spread awareness of the Space Engine, add it to your Wishlist now!
So does SE have 3D vegetation or doesn't it? Also, is there a visual difference between terrestrial unicellular and terrestrial multicellular?
Not yet
Congracts!Welcome home!
10:06 that voice crack tho.
Try Finding The Pistol Star No Star Locator And Good Luck!
That is seriously awesome! I love the vids!
Hello wonderful person... I love how he says that at the start of his videos.
Yeah, and then a little later he says he hopes there are no aliens out there because if there is they'll enslave us because they'll be just like humans, basically evil.
Anton is my navigator now
/HFY reddit should really have a link to this ! Most stories assume finding Earth when lost in the galaxy is very hard !
Amazing, how you did that !!
The person who suggested the challenge might not:
protecc, and attacc.
but at least he dyamicc.
Time taken to find earth: 12:33
I always wondered how to find our way back home if we visited our next nearest star neighbour. My first thoughts were to just have a really good camera facing backwards as we fly away from earth and our solar system.
is space engine as in depth as Universe Sandbox in terms of the freedom to experiment and what have you? or is Space Engine more of an interactive encyclopedia than a sandbox sim?
Is it possible to have life on a planet orbiting a black hole due to hawking radiation or maybe heat because of gravitational influence as we have it on europa?
Meanwhile star traveller in the 3030 year...
hey anton, I challenge you to find earth outside the local group, tools ARE allowed
now find earth starting from the edge of the observable universe
Imposible.
+Eduardo Toledo technically it isn't
Since the milky-way is in the center of the space engine universe it should be easy to find it
3:20
Spellbinding. Just shows how small we are in the Universe.