@@ericrahmadya7515 Not sure -- UA-cam used to let anyone provide subtitles. I didn't add them, someone else did. If you want to let me know what it should be I can add it in!
I come back to this video every now and again to remind myself about what’s actually important...looking at the universe like this makes every worry I have in my day to day life feel weightless, and for a while I just feel at peace with everything.
That tug & tear you feel has been placed there by God... You're in awe of His creation... I hope you don't believe the scientific impossibility that everything came from nothing...
The video is full of emotions for me. I believe in God, and I am a Muslim. In one of the Quran verses, God says, --- Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth; the alternation of the day and the night; the ships that sail the sea for the benefit of humanity; the rain sent down by Allah from the skies, reviving the earth after its death; the scattering of all kinds of creatures throughout; the shifting of the winds; and the clouds drifting between the heavens and the earth-˹in all of this˺ are surely signs for people of understanding.---
My brother sent me this video a few years back. I wasn't interested in the slightest. Now that it's been 2 years since he passed away and his birthday recently passed, I was rummaging through his YT playlist and found this video. It breaks my heart yet provides unspeakable comfort.
Neat to see your comment here Peter! I am a Jackie Evancho fan. Wonder if Jackie will take an interest in this? Needles to say, loved your "Hallelujah" duet with her!
You have no idea how far reaching your videos are going. My oldest son is absolutely obsessed with space. He's six. When he saw this it's almost like it changed him. He absolutely has to see this before bed so "he can dream about the stars in space". Please make more. We've watched every one of your videos.
I also should point out that this very video has grabbed ahold of me as well. When I'm away at work I watch it before bed. I want to learn more about space and the stars. What is a good website for things like this?
Thanks for your super kind comment! Most spacey stuff I get clued into from the 'space' section of reddit (reddit.com/r/space) but linked from there you might find some sites in particular that focus on particular things that you find captivating. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Blog is interesting but a bit more technical. You could also try sites like Universe Today which aggregate space news and discoveries, aimed more at a general audience. Have fun!
I was also six when I saw a documentary about Gagarin. The world was never the same again. My grandfather would tell me about God and heaven above us, and would like "do you have a moment to talk about space?"...hahahah
Yeah and if the colors are correct then the more red they are the older the light is b/c of the expansion of space. Or maybe Andromeda is to close to be significantly affected by this
@@Tiagomottadmello Only those big bright stars from our galaxy are that close (in the foreground). Andromeda is 2.5 *million* light years away, with the front stars getting here maybe a hundred thousand years sooner than the back stars. Crazy stuff!
Once I came to terms that the universe isn't centered around me, and my narcissism faded, I really began to appreciate everything in my life---knowing it's all temporary, including me, and must be enjoyed now, not tomorrow. Something about the idea that you will live forever in some paradise dulls the experience of life. Once you come to terms with that it's not forever, you'll begin living. Religious people have said to me my life must be empty and have no purpose. How wrong they are. And how ironic that is. Some guy stumbling through life under the haze of religious hypnotism who thinks some god is watching and judging every move he makes saying my life is shit. Yeah, right.
+MIKE ZEROH Exactly, there are millions and possibly billions of stars from andromeda that may not even exist anymore due to the death of those stars but we still see the light they sent to use 2 million years ago! It really is mind blowing.
In theory it is possible but it is substantially closer to us than we actually realize. That galaxy is moving toward us at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour and at that speed it will only take another 4 billion years for the collision with the milky way. So much to still learn!
+Grind Time Yeah, ya right. And according to most astrophysicist types we won't notice a thing because no 2 stars from either galaxy are ever going to collide. There are several doing it now.
First time watching this I legit cried. I don’t know why it made me cry. Maybe because it was a reminder that my problems are small. It’s a reminder that we are so small compared to the larger mysterious universe filled with worlds and possible life elsewhere where people are having ongoing problems too. It’s a reminder that death is not only in our world but also out in the darkness of space. Even these large planets and suns eventually die and new ones are born and life continues.
God put that emotion in you to cry in awesome wonder of His creation... Please don't be like the fools who believe the scientific impossibility that everything came from nothing...
SlypherSpoons self-important, not self-importance. I won't go into any other of your errors, but they're annoying and I can't take you seriously. Nice attempt to sound remotely intelligent. This could be the most pointless comment I've read. Go read a book, and get a life. Maybe learn how to construct a sentence. Lol, what a joke.
I agree. This is incredibly humbling. We think we're so important yet we are so small. Yet at the same time, this video helps me think no mater what happens in life, in the end, everything will be ok.
i dont think this really forces anyone out of their comfort zone, i feel in my comfort zone when watching it, but it definitely is humbling. The existence of other intelligent life is practically undeniable after watching.
Watching this is a religious experience for me. I’m moved to awed tears every time. Especially when I remember that this is only one *quarter* of only *one* galaxy, out of trillions.
really puts into perspective how you can look into a grain of sand here on a microscope, then think about how "big" our planet is and how big of a feat it is to travel a good chunk of it, then to think that this pic looks like a beach full of grains of sand, and then yet a picture of a bunch of galaxies can also look like a bunch of grains of sand.. we really are microscopic in the big scheme of things if we really think about it! so amazing yet intimidating to realize at the same time
@@-requestisinvalid-6299 current estimate is about 2 trillion in the "observable universe" and possibly up to 30 quintillion as a best guess of size of the entire universe assuming it is a finite size. I heard some where the est size of the entire universe is around 250x the radius of the observable universe (46 billion light years) making it around 23 trillion light years in diameter. Assuming the rest we cannot observe is as isotropic as what we can see, the estimate is 30+ quintillion galaxies. ultimately who knows it's just F'n big
Bro you will be more amazed if u knew that Quran abounds with scientific facts which appeared centuries before their discovery by science. This demonstrates according to supporters that the Quran must be of divine origin. Among these miracles said to be found in the Quran are "everything, from relativity, quantum mechanics, Big Bang theory, black holes and pulsars, genetics, embryology, modern geology, thermodynamics, even the laser and hydrogen fuel cells" Check this out bro if you like science try it out! Its like a spoiler book that tells you what’s happening now and future! Also Surah Dhariyat Miraculous Verse As per Quran, the word heaven refer to what lies above the Earth. ... This phrase thus means “We expand the sky or the universe to a great extent.” This is the outcome that science has arrived today, and the Quran mentioned such a fact centuries before the invention of the first telescope.
@@حولالعالم-س4خ thanks bro for your effort,May the Almighty rewards you highest place in heaven, myself am in tears right now to know that the God of all creation and the skies remembers us and have sent us messngers along with our history from Adam(pbuh) till Muhammad(pbuh) with the Quran which presents the creations of the skies as a reminder and signs of the true One almighty God worthy of worship, All praise is to Allah the most merciful. the way to survive, the way to Almighty God the Glorious Quran.
And maybe in one, just one, have alien life, looking at our galaxy in the same way and wondering the same thing. That’s the question the pops in my mind.
Many years after this blew my mind for the very first time... I still continue to watch it an amazement. I now design planetariums and remain fascinated enough with this video to continue to watch it on a regular basis. It's. Spectacular. So much spectacularness Please let me know if you would like to make a new version with updated visuals, music made for this, an explanations.
I am on my way becoming a teacher. I showed this video for twenty 10-year old kids. Before I started the film I explained to them that space was big, and that there were many stars in the universe. I asked them to guess how many. They answer varied from between thousand to a billion. We talked about space for a few minutes. I then started this film on a projector. I can only say that their reaction was wonderful, filled with awe and wonder. Thank you. Keep up the good work:)
It is amazing that we can resolve individual stars in galaxies outside our own. The countless hours and effort of so many people that made this possible are tremendous. Humanity is awesome! Keep exploring.
it really puts in perspective how fighting against each other is such a waste. We could spend our resources on space exploration rather than war. We are all Earthlings, a family. I wish everyone could see that.
Rachel Marilyn Wilde That's why I liked the movie 2010. Also the one who created Andromeda said "Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, And as the film of dust on the scales they are regarded" Isaiah 40:15. We're just dust fighting dust.
It's almost certain that this is the case. Maybe not in Andromeda, but in one of the literal billions of other galaxies that exist in the Hubble Deep Field alone, let alone the trillions of others in the universe at large. I would also love for there to be other life in this galaxy, let alone Andromeda, but it is impossible for there not to be other life in the universe in general. It is just too big to support us alone.
Renegade Shep loves his M-6 Carnifex Hand Cannon I think it’s kind of strange that the Fermi paradox is used as explanation of why we are alone. The universe is unimaginable big and who’s to say even the most intelligent life can get to other galaxies let alone other stars. The distances are too large to say for certain whether interstellar and especially intergalactic journeys are even remotely possible.
The images captured by JWST won't be as photogenic as the ones of Hubble, it's not an optical telescope. The real replacement of Hubble will be the Luvoir Space Telescope.
In the same time someone somewhere from Andromeda is watching a gigapixels of Milky Way(or whatever they call it..)...and wondering definitely we are not alone in the universe.
"Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."______ Carl Sagan
I don't understand why some people feel insignificant after watching this. I feel amazed by the fact that among billions of possibilities we happen to exist. I so feel lucky and thankful!
dude we dont even feel or remember what happened billions of years before us. And yet we are here. We didnt wait to be here. We just suddenly gain consciousness and here we are. consciousness is inevitable and it happens somewhere in the universe. If it wasnt earth it would be somewhere else in different timelapse.
Dreadmyshadow Or not important... I wanted to create a short of an alien team aboard their spaceship picking up a reading for a nuclear anomaly in an area that is not notice by those species who space travel. So they get excited thinking that a species has recently discovered teleportation or travel beyond the speed of light. But when the get here, nothing... then they focus on the land mass where the reading of the first burst happen then a flash of light. With horror they realize what this precious energy is being used for... they are so depressed and label our solar system a 'danger zone' for other more advanced cultures to be warned. And one of them remarks "I've seen this type of thing before. They won't last more than 100 cycles around their sun before they destroy themselves, and good riddance the universe needs to be spared from such destructive/conquering creatures." Then they leave.
We may well be the most advanced in the universe. SOMEONE has to be. We're the most advanced civilization that we're aware of, at least. The search never ends.
@Doc Possum There are far too many factors to be considered that we can't possibly say the chances are "low enough." We really have no idea one way or the other.
Definitely the most heart wrenching video on UA-cam for me...I just simply come back to this just to feel overpowered by the Universe itself...I cherish this feeling in a weird way
This hits you right deep into your soul. Be grateful that we have a conscious to be aware of the universe and all its beauty. As far as we know no other species on this planet has ever been aware of the universe. We are lucky.
Keep in mind that every star you see with "diffraction spikes" is still within our own galaxy. Diffraction spikes are those "X" or "+" like rays around a star caused by the way light reacts to the mechanism holding the mirrors in place in the telescope. If you see diffraction spikes, it's a star within our own galaxy.
@Thobb Andromeda is 2,500,000 light years away. The stars in our own galaxy with the diffraction spikes seen in the video are likely between 10-80,000 light years away (just a guess, but our galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter, and the nearest stars are around 4 to 5 light years away, so its a bit educated :P)
It's not a hard "rule" more of a "rule of thumb." The stars within the Andromeda Galaxy are so far away that the light from them is dimmed quite a bit. It's both the "point source" and the brightness that determines whether or not diffraction spikes appear. All stars (except our Sun) are so far away that they are essentially point sources, so the only thing governing whether diffraction spikes show up is the brightness. Stars within our own galaxy can appear much more bright than individual stars from the Andromeda Galaxy due to the inverse square law of propagation (they're brighter because they are much closer). Stars within our galaxy that are bright enough CAN make diffraction spikes, while stars wihin the Andromeda Galaxy are so far away that it would nearly be impossible for them to be "bright enough." With one exception: A supernova. A supernova within the Andromeda Galaxy might just be bright enough to produce diffraction spikes. I spoke of "point sources" because not all "bright" looking things within the images above are individual stars. For example, skip to 1:56 in the video. In the slight upper right, there is a big white blob without diffraction spikes. This is a clue that it is not an individual star. It is most likely a globular cluster of stars. I'm not sure whether it is a globular cluster that is a "far away" one associate with our galaxy or whether it is a large one within the Andromeda Galaxy. But whether it's part of the Milky Way or whether it is part of the Andromeda Galaxy, it doesn't show diffraction spikes and therefore it's most likely a globular cluster.
@@ryderpham5464 Yes but it took 2.5 million years to get here, thus we're seeing 2.5 Million light years ago. What is actually there we will see in another 2.5 Million years. At this moment.
Tinkle Tingler It's a little thing, but we're not seeing it 2.5 million light years ago, we're seeing it 2.5 million years ago. If something was right in front of you, you'd be seeing it a millisecond ago, not a light-millisecond ago.
Of all the images taken of space, this the one that has given me the most clear visual communication of how big the universe is, especially when you consider this is just one of billions of galaxies.
The fastest space craft we ever achieved was 165,000mph, based on that if we take the average distance between stars in a galaxy, about 5 light years, to get from one star to the next would take an average of 20600 years travelling at 165,000mph. thats just to go from one dot on this screen to the next. at that speed we can circle around the entire earth in 6mins. if you had set off on that journey at the time the Great Pyramids were being built, you would be just over a quarter of the way to the next star by now. that gives you an idea of the scale we are looking at here.
@@vume7722 well based on current science teleportation would be impossible with human beings, due to our intricate make up on the atomic level we would need to dismantle our physical matter into something capable of moving through spacetime without speed limits then our device would need to re-construct ourselves on the other side keeping all of our consciousness and memory intact. any physical matter is limited by the speed of light, only photons and maybe other theoretical massless particles can match or bypass light speed. so the only foreseeable option to our current science to move our matter through space faster than light would be wormholes, which at that point if we are transporting our bodies through small wormhole devices then we might aswell just use them with spaceships instead of risking dismantling our physical matter through atomic teleportation. which currently we dont even have the science know how to make wormholes. but as all science in the past has shown, the science of today is nothing more than a stepping stone for the science of tomorrow. who knows what new discoveries we will make that will unlock all new possibilities of space, physics and time.
Manipulating the fabric of space seems to require extreme mass and speed, indeed we can not have the mass of photons,which I think have a mass its just that we don't have small numbers to work it out, mass-less particle could be able to teleport , hence you mention shredding of matter to sub atomic particles, so it can not be filtered by the fabric of space it just pass trough instead of being bound by it, ultimately breaking the light speed barrier, the possibility of the cosmic web we becoming riddled with holes ( wormholes) is plausible.
So many stars and they look so close to each other. Knowing that it would take thousands of years to travel between each one, puts in to perspective the size of a Galaxy!
Yuri Neijhorst I mean you are not wrong. And against the odds, we survived and evolved past nature’s ways of evolution, building society etc and look where we are now
marvar gare yes people are stupid and take a shit ton of stuff they don’t understand at all for granted, but seriously now, were the times when we were afraid of predators better
How anyone could look at this, and think we're alone in the universe is beyond me. This just one of TRILLIONS of galaxies too. We aren't even a spec of dust in the universe.
The fact that people think the universe was created for humans and only humans bothers me. We are an advanced bread of ape living on a small planet orbiting an average star within a galaxy containing billions of other stars within a universe containing trillions of galaxies.Theres nothing special or unique about us besides being relatively intelligent compared to the life forms here on earth.
Josh Rubin But we have capitalism, and that is obsolete. Humanity is not yet ready to transfer into a modern society where capitalism is not clenched like a security blanket. I think humanity could be better than that.
This for me is the most beautiful video found on the internet. I watch it regularly, to remember how small we are in this universe and to be amazed at the greatness of God. Thank you Dave for being able to combine images of superlative beauty with music that expresses the power of creation.
Same bro! I'm sure you would know, *EVERY TINY MINISCULE SPEC,* *IS A GIGANTIC STAR WITH PLANETS AROUND IT!!!* Especially when you're drunk lol, if your brain is thinking *DEEP* about that, it brings tears to your eyes
Billions is not even close. They are several light-years at the closest and several hundreds or thousands of light-years apart. 1 light-year = 6 trillion miles. Just as a frame of reference, the closest star to earth after the sun is about 4.2 light-years away. That's about 25 trillion miles.
i just feel humble and a part of something bigger than myself when i look up at the true night sky. Its a shame that city people don't know what i'm on about :/
With our current technology it would take us 18,000 years to go to the nearest star from the sun. Now imagine conquering our own galaxy or even andromeda. R.I.P. And light itself takes 4.3 years to go to the nearest star.
@@BenjamintYT i know right!!! i mean i sometimes even question myself that there are literally so many stars like sun who probably have their own galaxy and systems as we have, and it cant be wrong to think that we aren't alone in this vast universe right??
@@chachatothe_right As it is a nice thought that there might be other life, it is a very disenchanting observation that, even if there is life, it is extremely unlikely that we will ever find it. We can barely make it out of our solar system let alone travel to far away galaxies, whose light will only reach us in millions of years. Though I, too, wish we had an interstellar future ahead much like science fiction movies, space travel might actually never be a thing. So if there is life, we can wish the best for them from afar :)
I remember watching this when it had less than 10k views and had just been released...... i must have seen it a hundred times by now and i'm still in awe.
I like to believe there's millions of species out there living in those tiny dots, having problems of their own, maybe even star wars type of galactic wars between them and we're here just completely oblivious to what's happening around us
I dare anyone to say we are alone after you realize this was just one of atleast half a trillion galaxies, and thats just counting the ones we are able to see. And thinking the world was made especially for us? forget about it
+HamGoof k christianity dont have a set day for the coming of christ, so they can be waiting a million years from now and they still would claim he will one day come, although by that time probably humans would have artificially and naturally evolved so much that they may be able to generate a mental image in matter at will, so they could simply make jesus appear.
commenter78 the earths properties could have come about naturally, even with random likelihoods of planet properties the odds are there are billions of earthlike planets in the universe
@@dnlgby not necessarily. other intelligent would be of different form, different size.. and maybe even different material. weather that'd be metallic life, cellular, or something else. *none* of these statements are "unlikely".
Too bad we're so far away from each other. Probably for the best. We humans can't even go a decade without waging wars. I can't imagine a war in galactic scale.
Damn...this is making me feel insignificant, make me think that one day I am gonna be dead, and I will be part of that entire magnificent. But at the same time make me feel special, because for some reason, i am actually here. We all are gonna die some day. So let's make our lives worth it. 💜 Good vibes to everyone reading this, attract your dreams, and make them come true.
Some day trillions of years from now entire universe is gong to die and when the last star dies out it will be nothing but a dark and cold universe. So what? Everything physical has to pass on someday even the universe.
The Legend Then the energy spreads so far apart within the universe it can no longer hold a spacial vacuum and then inverts like a rubber-band. Then BOOM the universe begins again in a large explosion.
@@theragingcyclone So then that makes me think from your comment, what if there was a God that would let us eternally exist and never let us humans go extinct?
@@plexell735 Same thing here. But we just don't know if there is one. Surely there has to be a way to find out if God exists? Or maybe I'm just completely wrong lol
None...............🤔 Not a single proof except theories and Signs Or human cannot parcieve that dimensions except after Dying. You know what i am talking about.
@@-abdul.manan- "Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." ~ Carl Sagan. Maybe we aren't just looking in the right direction to turn our theories into reality.
Meow F*ck off. All he said was "we are not alone," and you freak out, blow it out of proportion, and tell him he's an idiot. I'm gonna guess you are.. around 16 years old, an incredibly obnoxious atheist, and you like to spend your free time on on Reddit, ranting about how "stupid religious people are ruining the whole world," and how much you love Neil Degrasse Tyson, as well as posting pictures of anime fanfics on Tumblr, and watching those watered down Vsauce "science" videos to trick yourself into believing you're some kind of intellectual who actually understands the topics entailed in them. Then you probably attempt to bring up said topics in your day-to-day League of Legends online conversation amongst your other Cheeto-and-Mountain-Dew-inhaling neckbeard friends, to create a false illusion of intelligence and boost your sense of self importance. You also probably have a nice collection of ninja swords you bought off Ebay, and sleep on a musty, old, saliva-encrusted futon with a Soul Eater themed blanket/pillow set, from which you watch constant Netflix cartoons (Dad, they're not cartoons, anime is serious, intelligent drama), pausing only for bathroom breaks and to yell to your mom to bring you a plate of Pizza Rolls. That last paragraph got a little off topic and fantastical, but I stand by the first paragraph as most likely being very accurate. Calm down, and have a little more understanding, and common sense. Peace.
Meow The chances of us even existing in the first place is so incredibly small, that you need to consider that the chances of it ever happening again in even more-so unimaginably tiny. Everyone wants there to be life out there, but if there is I doubt it's anything vaguely similar to us. You can't appreciate enough just how almost impossibly immaculate everything needs to be for our planet to sustain life.
Flimmykins That all depends on the size of the universe though wouldn't it? If the universe is endless, then the laws of physics would say there are also endless identical copies of you somewhere out there. Who knows.
Nick Johnson Because it's so impossibly small compared to what everything is. We have the mental capacity to see millions of galaxies, which alone is more significant than all of our money has ever bought.
When faced with the level of technical scientific knowledge and technology we have achieved and created, no one on earth today should starve to death and be without lifes essentials. Money, at this point, is holding humanity back from its true potential.
Nick Johnson Self-centered much? What I'm saying is we spend our lives running in inconceivably small circles trying to accumulate money and status when in reality none of that matters beyond staying alive.
Or you wish. It's so scary to be alone, without any purpose, doomed to disappear. In reality, we still don't know, so nothing is "sure". For example, there may be tons of planets with life and zero planet with intelligent life, since in terms of evolution intelligence is really just an odd and particular path, with many favorable conditions needed. Or maybe there are many civilisations, who knows.
@@xenotypos yep fermi sounds scary, It's satisfying to imagine there's a species as intelligent as us out there struggling like us to find the secrets and probably join us in the adventure..
@@xenotypos And imagine, there could be a super advance life form saying just what you wrote - will we find intelligent life such as us in the galaxy, all we find are monkey like lifeforms that cannot even grasp the use of communication via telepathy.
Yes we are. Or at the very least, intelligent life on our level or above is so rare and far apart as to have no realistic chance of ever interacting, so we might as well be alone all the same.
You'd think that somewhere in all that mess of stars and planets there's gotta be a place where the better option to buying more printer ink is NOT to buy a whole new printer.
@@jacob5416 there's trillions of galaxies there, each one of them with 100+ billions to trillions, it's a good comparison, but the amount of sand we have is not even close to the number of stars, that's why I said it's not even comparable. This blows my mind
@@odonnelly46 We don't know that. The universe being infinite is well within the reaches of mathematical possibilities and your logic to suggest otherwise doesn't make much sense if you know about how slow light is on a cosmic scale.
+BananaBread It's all relative :) We see but a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, we can only hear a fraction of the audio spectrum, we only experience a tiny fraction of time scales, of distance scales, of size scales, of energy scales. Compared to the full range of reality that we can access with the science and math tools we've developed, our bodies are laughably incapable of experiencing it in a meaningful or intuitive way. But we are exceedingly good at understanding our tiny slice of reality, because that's what our brains were made for. Compared to some imaginary beings which could intuit all that we've spend hundreds of billions of dollars and centuries finding out, we really are like dumb little insects in a way.
Imagine the technological advancement we could have achieved if there was no wars at all any given time. Wow.. We would be already on a trip to the closes star system i believe
@@TheKalippp1 I mean no, wwii led to the creation of the computer from alan turing's machine and also partly the creation of the passenger plane since armies had to develop planes rapidly and improve their technology. War forces innovation. Dont advance technology? country go boom.
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New version with 60fps and 8k resolution is here: ua-cam.com/video/D9bNqBeAtC8/v-deo.html
You really picked the perfect song for this original.
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يا سبجان الله . الطاعة لي الله لا يمكن ان نكون نعيش لوحدنا
why first phrase subtitke in indonesia is missing
@@ericrahmadya7515 Not sure -- UA-cam used to let anyone provide subtitles. I didn't add them, someone else did. If you want to let me know what it should be I can add it in!
Imagine someone in Andromeda is watching "Gigapixels of Milkyway [4K]"
Well that would be really amazing if we knew they're really doing the same!😁
DAMN
just imagine
But it's on a black and white tv because that alien race is color blind
@J. Jonah Jameson yes way. 🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Now I understand why people at NASA keep smashing their head to keyboard when naming those stars.
😂😂😂😂
Star00000000001, star00000000002, star00000000003, etc... No problem.
Try to use Roman numerals?
@@szaki Just a few symbols more. Not a problem. ;-)
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8 years after this came out, and it still gives me chills.
I've had a recurring reminder to watch it for the past 5 years and it STILL blows my mind.
Every. Single. Time.
Andromeda has 1.232 x 10^12 stars and that’s just one galaxy out of 100 billion galaxies…
Do they play golf in Andromeda?
80 тысяч миров есть это написано в Коране
@@bits_of_brycewatch it again lol
I come back to this video every now and again to remind myself about what’s actually important...looking at the universe like this makes every worry I have in my day to day life feel weightless, and for a while I just feel at peace with everything.
My thoughts exactly!
Same
same thing.
it soothes my heart & clear my mind
Something so humbling. Puts everything in life into perspective.
Too bad you’re gonna die
I hope when i die i can do spectate mode, and travel the whole planets and stars in universe.
That would be a better existence than the one we currently have.
@@raymondrocco6251 yeah but you'd still be able to explore a good amount of stars.
Maybe even rewind time
no_clip mode on
That would be awesome than living on the earth
This is one of the most powerful videos on the internet. I have never watched it without tearing up.
That tug & tear you feel has been placed there by God... You're in awe of His creation... I hope you don't believe the scientific impossibility that everything came from nothing...
@@oreally8605 Keep your Christian bullshit for yourself
yes why we dont tear and this is the great god's creature
The video is full of emotions for me. I believe in God, and I am a Muslim. In one of the Quran verses, God says, --- Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth; the alternation of the day and the night; the ships that sail the sea for the benefit of humanity; the rain sent down by Allah from the skies, reviving the earth after its death; the scattering of all kinds of creatures throughout; the shifting of the winds; and the clouds drifting between the heavens and the earth-˹in all of this˺ are surely signs for people of understanding.---
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My brother sent me this video a few years back. I wasn't interested in the slightest. Now that it's been 2 years since he passed away and his birthday recently passed, I was rummaging through his YT playlist and found this video. It breaks my heart yet provides unspeakable comfort.
Now this might sound crazy but who knows your brother might born again in any of those star systems in Andromeda :)
Sorry to hear that man. But on another note, how the hell did this not interest you?!
Awww. Really sorry for your loss, mate. A big hug!! ❤️😘❤️
This is absolutely incredible... Well worth the watch. Get ready to have your mind blown.
It cool
*jaw drops* Mind. Blown.
impresiona ver la cantidad de galaxias y estrellas que ahi
So who is still thinking we are alone?
Neat to see your comment here Peter! I am a Jackie Evancho fan. Wonder if Jackie will take an interest in this? Needles to say, loved your "Hallelujah" duet with her!
You have no idea how far reaching your videos are going. My oldest son is absolutely obsessed with space. He's six. When he saw this it's almost like it changed him. He absolutely has to see this before bed so "he can dream about the stars in space". Please make more. We've watched every one of your videos.
I also should point out that this very video has grabbed ahold of me as well. When I'm away at work I watch it before bed. I want to learn more about space and the stars. What is a good website for things like this?
Thanks for your super kind comment! Most spacey stuff I get clued into from the 'space' section of reddit (reddit.com/r/space) but linked from there you might find some sites in particular that focus on particular things that you find captivating. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Blog is interesting but a bit more technical. You could also try sites like Universe Today which aggregate space news and discoveries, aimed more at a general audience. Have fun!
We need more people like your son . congratularions !!
I was also six when I saw a documentary about Gagarin. The world was never the same again. My grandfather would tell me about God and heaven above us, and would like "do you have a moment to talk about space?"...hahahah
I'm sure he's going to be a member of Flat Earth Society
Impossible to imagine the scale. All those tiny specks are stars that are billions of kilometres apart.
they are trillions of kilometers apart.
Can’t imagine it. And that’s just about one fourth of one galaxy. Our minds cannot encompass this
To put that into easier perspektif, its actually light years apart.
40,208,000,000,000 km to our nearest star...
lightyear
The only video in the entire internet that can calm me down
Then you haven't watched the 'Time Lapse of the Future' here on yt, which can calm you down for eternity;)
@@organicfarm5524Watched it too by melodysheep. It's calming too
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It's crazy to think some parts of the picture are actually older than others.
Smart cookie.
Light speed and that shit
Yeah and if the colors are correct then the more red they are the older the light is b/c of the expansion of space. Or maybe Andromeda is to close to be significantly affected by this
The whole picture is old.... At least 4,5 years... Acctually, the back deep part of the picture is about 200 years older than the front part of it.
@@Tiagomottadmello Only those big bright stars from our galaxy are that close (in the foreground). Andromeda is 2.5 *million* light years away, with the front stars getting here maybe a hundred thousand years sooner than the back stars. Crazy stuff!
This brings tears of joy to my eyes.
Why are you happy?
What this video is telling us is pretty much that we don't matter. We're nothing.
Once I came to terms that the universe isn't centered around me, and my narcissism faded, I really began to appreciate everything in my life---knowing it's all temporary, including me, and must be enjoyed now, not tomorrow. Something about the idea that you will live forever in some paradise dulls the experience of life. Once you come to terms with that it's not forever, you'll begin living. Religious people have said to me my life must be empty and have no purpose. How wrong they are. And how ironic that is. Some guy stumbling through life under the haze of religious hypnotism who thinks some god is watching and judging every move he makes saying my life is shit. Yeah, right.
+Hampurilias - The tears of joy come from the realisation that we are a part of this wonderous universe. We do matter.
same
Lucas Ferreira Why?
*Did you realize that you were watching a moment that was 2 million years ago!!!*
+MIKE ZEROH Exactly, there are millions and possibly billions of stars from andromeda that may not even exist anymore due to the death of those stars but we still see the light they sent to use 2 million years ago! It really is mind blowing.
In theory it is possible but it is substantially closer to us than we actually realize. That galaxy is moving toward us at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour and at that speed it will only take another 4 billion years for the collision with the milky way. So much to still learn!
+Grind Time Yeah, ya right. And according to most astrophysicist types we won't notice a thing because no 2 stars from either galaxy are ever going to collide. There are several doing it now.
+Alex SH .....when the light that made that photo left Andromeda.... we just became a fully up right walking ape.
+Alex SH Yes but universally wise, out of human comprehension and logic, 2 million years are nothing..
First time watching this I legit cried. I don’t know why it made me cry. Maybe because it was a reminder that my problems are small. It’s a reminder that we are so small compared to the larger mysterious universe filled with worlds and possible life elsewhere where people are having ongoing problems too. It’s a reminder that death is not only in our world but also out in the darkness of space. Even these large planets and suns eventually die and new ones are born and life continues.
God put that emotion in you to cry in awesome wonder of His creation... Please don't be like the fools who believe the scientific impossibility that everything came from nothing...
Lol
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Incredible and sensible comment sir🙌👌
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And that is just one galaxy.....
And there are 100 billion more in the observable universe....
Tony Ragsdale Actually I think there are 2 trillion galaxies
theres hundreds of billions of galaxies. ik.....makes you wanna die lol
That was just part of it, not even the complete galaxy.
There is billions and billions and billions of galaxys
There's probably some huge galactic war we have no clue about
Ikr :D
A14 YOO 😭
that comment gave me StarWars/marvel vibes
@@dromeda6066 hell for all we know marvel characters probably exist
@@dromeda6066 think about it
Everyone should be required to watch this. It's humbling, thought provoking, and forces us out of our comfort zone.
SlypherSpoons self-important, not self-importance. I won't go into any other of your errors, but they're annoying and I can't take you seriously. Nice attempt to sound remotely intelligent.
This could be the most pointless comment I've read. Go read a book, and get a life. Maybe learn how to construct a sentence. Lol, what a joke.
I agree. This is incredibly humbling. We think we're so important yet we are so small. Yet at the same time, this video helps me think no mater what happens in life, in the end, everything will be ok.
i dont think this really forces anyone out of their comfort zone, i feel in my comfort zone when watching it, but it definitely is humbling. The existence of other intelligent life is practically undeniable after watching.
exactly
Your mom is thought provoking. Sexual thoughts.
Watching this is a religious experience for me. I’m moved to awed tears every time. Especially when I remember that this is only one *quarter* of only *one* galaxy, out of trillions.
Billions of Galaxies not trillions. Yes God exists. Have a good day...
@@oreally8605 then prove it boomer
really puts into perspective how you can look into a grain of sand here on a microscope, then think about how "big" our planet is and how big of a feat it is to travel a good chunk of it, then to think that this pic looks like a beach full of grains of sand, and then yet a picture of a bunch of galaxies can also look like a bunch of grains of sand.. we really are microscopic in the big scheme of things if we really think about it! so amazing yet intimidating to realize at the same time
@@oreally8605 Who said you there's billion and not trillion ?
@@-requestisinvalid-6299 current estimate is about 2 trillion in the "observable universe" and possibly up to 30 quintillion as a best guess of size of the entire universe assuming it is a finite size. I heard some where the est size of the entire universe is around 250x the radius of the observable universe (46 billion light years) making it around 23 trillion light years in diameter. Assuming the rest we cannot observe is as isotropic as what we can see, the estimate is 30+ quintillion galaxies. ultimately who knows it's just F'n big
This is why my passion for space and anything scifi related is still strong. Its a big universe out there with endless possibilities
Correct.. Imagine this was just a quadrant of a galaxy!!!
@@souravdebroy7795 which is also a small part of the visible portion of the sky
Bro you will be more amazed if u knew that Quran abounds with scientific facts which appeared centuries before their discovery by science. This demonstrates according to supporters that the Quran must be of divine origin. Among these miracles said to be found in the Quran are "everything, from relativity, quantum mechanics, Big Bang theory, black holes and pulsars, genetics, embryology, modern geology, thermodynamics, even the laser and hydrogen fuel cells"
Check this out bro if you like science try it out! Its like a spoiler book that tells you what’s happening now and future! Also Surah Dhariyat Miraculous Verse
As per Quran, the word heaven refer to what lies above the Earth. ... This phrase thus means “We expand the sky or the universe to a great extent.” This is the outcome that science has arrived today, and the Quran mentioned such a fact centuries before the invention of the first telescope.
@@حولالعالم-س4خ no one cares
@@حولالعالم-س4خ thanks bro for your effort,May the Almighty rewards you highest place in heaven, myself am in tears right now to know that the God of all creation and the skies remembers us and have sent us messngers along with our history from Adam(pbuh) till Muhammad(pbuh) with the Quran which presents the creations of the skies as a reminder and signs of the true One almighty God worthy of worship, All praise is to Allah the most merciful.
the way to survive, the way to Almighty God the Glorious Quran.
No matter how many sorrows you are suffering, struggling with; when you look up, all seems small. I love where I am.
None of that gives a shit about us lmao
@@TheMonsterMichael earth is flat
@@VaibhavSharma04 😂😂
@@thejackinfenwa7101 Such comments make people say earth is flat, everyone knows its cube but these comments make us say its flat.
@@VaibhavSharma04 nah i don't think it's a cube, we all know the earth is a flat octagon, right? :)
Its amazing and mind boggling that mostly every single dot is a star and they are densely packed, yet they are light years apart from each other.
Wonder how many of those stars have planets.?
Look up Hubble ultra deep field. Every dot in it is a galaxy.
And maybe in one, just one, have alien life, looking at our galaxy in the same way and wondering the same thing. That’s the question the pops in my mind.
@@KAT-dg6el There is no galaxies inside Andromeda. The other galaxies are outside on deep space.
The tiny dots are not stars. It is “camera noise” for the most part.
Many years after this blew my mind for the very first time... I still continue to watch it an amazement. I now design planetariums and remain fascinated enough with this video to continue to watch it on a regular basis. It's. Spectacular. So much spectacularness
Please let me know if you would like to make a new version with updated visuals, music made for this, an explanations.
This made me cry. Our universe is beautiful.
***** #thirstyasfuck
***** Your a looser. Back off troll.
*****
***** ^ Can we ship you to another planet? Surely we have many options, as this video concludes.
Absolutely. What stunnig beauty.
Fun fact- There are more galaxies in the universe than there are stars in andromeda.
Of course.
Yep
Just kill me
Fun fact there may be more universes in the multiverse than galaxies in our universe
Jo Kah its just a speculation, not a fact.
I am on my way becoming a teacher. I showed this video for twenty 10-year old kids. Before I started the film I explained to them that space was big, and that there were many stars in the universe. I asked them to guess how many. They answer varied from between thousand to a billion. We talked about space for a few minutes. I then started this film on a projector. I can only say that their reaction was wonderful, filled with awe and wonder. Thank you. Keep up the good work:)
Truls Bakke wowww
Keep showing this to your students. It may inspire them so much, one may grow up to be the next Einstein, Steven Hawking or Carl Sagan.
Du kommer til å bli en bra lærer!
It is amazing that we can resolve individual stars in galaxies outside our own. The countless hours and effort of so many people that made this possible are tremendous.
Humanity is awesome! Keep exploring.
Not only stars but also planets. In fact Andromeda has a number of stars with confirmed exoplanets.
it really puts in perspective how fighting against each other is such a waste. We could spend our resources on space exploration rather than war. We are all Earthlings, a family. I wish everyone could see that.
It's nice to see someone else who has their head in the right place.
Rachel Marilyn Wilde A tiny family on a little pale blue dot xD
Rachel Marilyn Wilde i could see that
awe that's very kind to say
Rachel Marilyn Wilde That's why I liked the movie 2010. Also the one who created Andromeda said "Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, And as the film of dust on the scales they are regarded" Isaiah 40:15. We're just dust fighting dust.
"Two possibilities exist, either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
*Arthur C. Clarke*
I love this quote I use it all the time.
I don't think it's possible that we are alone in the universe.
Our galaxy will collide with Andromeda in about 4 B y on from now... pity we will all miss the show...
@@aleksandrlenk6963 Take care of you, live healthy, don't eat animals and there is still a chance for you ... lol :)
i hobestly would prefer to be killed by aliens than to die alone
Who knows, an intelligent life form in andromeda could be peering at the Milky Way and thinking
*“Surely we cant be alone”*
It's almost certain that this is the case. Maybe not in Andromeda, but in one of the literal billions of other galaxies that exist in the Hubble Deep Field alone, let alone the trillions of others in the universe at large. I would also love for there to be other life in this galaxy, let alone Andromeda, but it is impossible for there not to be other life in the universe in general. It is just too big to support us alone.
@@RenegadeShepTheSpacer I agree. It would be very arrogant of us to think, all this space, and we the only one.
Definitely. All these stars and planets made from the same chemical elements as we are.
Undoubtedly, we are not alone..
Renegade Shep loves his M-6 Carnifex Hand Cannon I think it’s kind of strange that the Fermi paradox is used as explanation of why we are alone. The universe is unimaginable big and who’s to say even the most intelligent life can get to other galaxies let alone other stars. The distances are too large to say for certain whether interstellar and especially intergalactic journeys are even remotely possible.
@@RenegadeShepTheSpacer There are Klingons, Karsashions, Romulans and Vulcans in just the quarter of the Milky Way we live in. Plus More!!
7 years later and this is still one of the most beautiful videos I've seen. I'm still high.
The music complemented the image perfectly. It served to add to the pure sense of majesty and awesomeness that is Andromeda.
and to think thats just one of many billions or even trillions of galaxies in the universe, is just... i dont even know what word to describe it
Can we appreciate just how perfectly the music fits the video. Scary yet satisfying at the same time
Yess. You're soo right Amanda. I'd love to pause time and travel it all with ambient music. Would be lovely. Of only...
I feel almost the same 😂
Whtsup!!
This music would also fit perfectly getting to know you Amanda :D
No. I think it's sappy. Over a bunch of stars? LOL
Imagine what the James Webb Telescope will be able to capture. I can't wait
When is the launch?
@@nitin9614 feb next year
Eee?
@Gabriel Henrique 31/02/2015538
The images captured by JWST won't be as photogenic as the ones of Hubble, it's not an optical telescope. The real replacement of Hubble will be the Luvoir Space Telescope.
Although i watched thousands of clips on UA-cam, this is my absolute favorite. I come back to it every now and then :)
same I always get goosebumps
It’s the soul searching type music that makes it so good this is my fave to watch before bed and just soul search
In the same time someone somewhere from Andromeda is watching a gigapixels of Milky Way(or whatever they call it..)...and wondering definitely we are not alone in the universe.
They have a corresponding YT video too.
It would be great to share comments with them, maybe some day :)
oh my Gawd man
Ting Ring I am watching a milky way currently, it is spiral as fuck, so many stars
Would it be possible to connect with them via internet?
"Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."______ Carl Sagan
For a millionth fraction of second of cosmic age.
Powerful.
Dot just changed meaning...
The human psyche is a strange thing.
They were like, "Yep, definitely worth it".
Amazing to me that 3.5K people would downvote what is literally one of the most amazing videos in human history.
Me too.
Probably flattards
Its the panning of the image
@@peterv8 My thoughts as well
Welcome to homo sapiens... The smartest and the dumbest all found in the same genetic structure!🤗
Been watching every couple of weeks for 10 years. Never gets old.
One of my favourite videos on UA-cam, I often find myself coming back to it.
Gerald Buda me too.
Same! It is absolutely astounding. I was actually about to comment that, haha. Cheers!
Me too👍
I set it up as my default youtube portal :-)
Me too :)
I don't understand why some people feel insignificant after watching this. I feel amazed by the fact that among billions of possibilities we happen to exist. I so feel lucky and thankful!
ME TOO.
Rodrigo Mirra
Exactly! I was just thinking why would we feel insignificant instead of feeling privileged and valuable in this vast universe?
dude we dont even feel or remember what happened billions of years before us. And yet we are here. We didnt wait to be here. We just suddenly gain consciousness and here we are. consciousness is inevitable and it happens somewhere in the universe. If it wasnt earth it would be somewhere else in different timelapse.
Exactly! I don't feel depressed. I feel we have infinite place to explore and reason for prosper
@@anassyria5176 We say insignificant but not in negative connotation. It's just we feel small is all. Not that we're not important.
Space, the only place where you can see the past in real time.
Waaaaa
3DPeter In fact everything you see is the past since even light takes time to travel 1mm.
3DPeter
Space, the only place.
The perception of time is truly amazing, the supreme entity has really no limits damnnn !
God is the true and only machine in this spacial life !
True ! !
This is one of my favorite videos of all time and one everyone should watch
I like to come back to this video every so often to put things into perspective
Absolutely
Me too. Reminds us how little we are in the grande scheme of things.
next time when you arrive, make sure to correct the sentence.
Same here bro
Exactly
This is one of the most amazing videos I’ve ever seen, I can’t believe I missed it for so long
NOW DO SOME OF YOU REALIZE !?!?! Do you now realize how preposterous it is to say there's no Alien lifeforms out there far more advanced than ours?
I bet they even already noticed us and categorized Earth as "mostly harmless".
Tommaso Soru Or "Harmful if released into the Galaxy"
Dreadmyshadow Or not important... I wanted to create a short of an alien team aboard their spaceship picking up a reading for a nuclear anomaly in an area that is not notice by those species who space travel. So they get excited thinking that a species has recently discovered teleportation or travel beyond the speed of light. But when the get here, nothing... then they focus on the land mass where the reading of the first burst happen then a flash of light. With horror they realize what this precious energy is being used for... they are so depressed and label our solar system a 'danger zone' for other more advanced cultures to be warned. And one of them remarks "I've seen this type of thing before. They won't last more than 100 cycles around their sun before they destroy themselves, and good riddance the universe needs to be spared from such destructive/conquering creatures." Then they leave.
We may well be the most advanced in the universe. SOMEONE has to be. We're the most advanced civilization that we're aware of, at least. The search never ends.
Tommaso Soru More like "Crazies and best to avoid"
Please never remove this from UA-cam. It is an international treasure.
Then download it so you have it even if UA-cam dies.
I wonder what someone out there has named our galaxy
i'm always thinking about same thing
The chances of life are low enough that Andromeda might be uninhabited.
@Doc Possum
There are far too many factors to be considered that we can't possibly say the chances are "low enough." We really have no idea one way or the other.
I am pretty sure they will named us PHOBIAS
Awesome question !
see you in 4 billion years
I want to see that event as well, but never going to :/
Well not with that attitude!
we already are living after billions of years been passed.
JAJAJAJA Love you guys :'v you've made me laught hard
I wonder which one of those pixels will collide with earth
More stars in the Universe than grains of sand on Earth.
*the milky way
@Elon Musk no the milky way
More stars in our galaxy than atoms in the universe
@@caiodbs nah thats a lil crazy...
@@caiodbs That's impossible, and makes no sense.
Stars are made up of atoms.
How stupid are you.
This is the most amazing video on UA-cam.
😀
5 years later and this video still gives me chills!! This is something else..
It definitely it makes me feel something i cannot explain
Same
@@DariusMG 🐶
6 years now
Definitely the most heart wrenching video on UA-cam for me...I just simply come back to this just to feel overpowered by the Universe itself...I cherish this feeling in a weird way
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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
Is it weird I cried while watching this...? It's just so fucking beautiful...
same thing
***** eh
GTFO pussies
***** word!
I am also crying
This hits you right deep into your soul. Be grateful that we have a conscious to be aware of the universe and all its beauty. As far as we know no other species on this planet has ever been aware of the universe. We are lucky.
Вот вот даже у этих галактик нет сознании
@@asia_stellazh there's no translation?
Born too late to explore the world, born to early to explore the universe. =(
Even if we achieve world peace and all that, we still probably won't.
Lucas Feijó yup birdless skies and fishless seas. After that we are next!
my pain exactly...
Born at exactly the right time to explore your mind ;)
@@LordEmilous that's deep, thank you.
Keep in mind that every star you see with "diffraction spikes" is still within our own galaxy. Diffraction spikes are those "X" or "+" like rays around a star caused by the way light reacts to the mechanism holding the mirrors in place in the telescope. If you see diffraction spikes, it's a star within our own galaxy.
Thanks for the info !
Didn't know that! Cool
@Thobb Andromeda is 2,500,000 light years away. The stars in our own galaxy with the diffraction spikes seen in the video are likely between 10-80,000 light years away (just a guess, but our galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter, and the nearest stars are around 4 to 5 light years away, so its a bit educated :P)
that’s very cool, why is that ?
It's not a hard "rule" more of a "rule of thumb." The stars within the Andromeda Galaxy are so far away that the light from them is dimmed quite a bit. It's both the "point source" and the brightness that determines whether or not diffraction spikes appear. All stars (except our Sun) are so far away that they are essentially point sources, so the only thing governing whether diffraction spikes show up is the brightness. Stars within our own galaxy can appear much more bright than individual stars from the Andromeda Galaxy due to the inverse square law of propagation (they're brighter because they are much closer). Stars within our galaxy that are bright enough CAN make diffraction spikes, while stars wihin the Andromeda Galaxy are so far away that it would nearly be impossible for them to be "bright enough." With one exception: A supernova. A supernova within the Andromeda Galaxy might just be bright enough to produce diffraction spikes. I spoke of "point sources" because not all "bright" looking things within the images above are individual stars. For example, skip to 1:56 in the video. In the slight upper right, there is a big white blob without diffraction spikes. This is a clue that it is not an individual star. It is most likely a globular cluster of stars. I'm not sure whether it is a globular cluster that is a "far away" one associate with our galaxy or whether it is a large one within the Andromeda Galaxy. But whether it's part of the Milky Way or whether it is part of the Andromeda Galaxy, it doesn't show diffraction spikes and therefore it's most likely a globular cluster.
this all happened 2,5 million years ago
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2,5 million light years ago
James Lee But Light Years aren't a measure of time, they're a measure of distance.
@@ryderpham5464 Yes but it took 2.5 million years to get here, thus we're seeing 2.5 Million light years ago. What is actually there we will see in another 2.5 Million years. At this moment.
Tinkle Tingler It's a little thing, but we're not seeing it 2.5 million light years ago, we're seeing it 2.5 million years ago. If something was right in front of you, you'd be seeing it a millisecond ago, not a light-millisecond ago.
Reincarnation
Of all the images taken of space, this the one that has given me the most clear visual communication of how big the universe is, especially when you consider this is just one of billions of galaxies.
Yep, it's official. Me being 3 minutes late to work doesn't matter on this scale....
@Sam Tait yep, it's official. Me being 3 minutes early to work doesn't matter on this scale...
@Sam Tait yeah I think we're done here.
Like Samuel Beckett said..."It's all the same seen from Sirius."
Tell that to your boss.
@Sam Tait lmao. Wow you actually mentioned astrology
So incredible! Makes you feel so insignificant...
and this is, my friend, nothing, there are still many planets and stars in our entire galaxy, lot of them believe me i saw many documents
Amazing!!
Thats what we are.
comeon guys, universe is hologram afterall
We are insignificant indeed
The fastest space craft we ever achieved was 165,000mph, based on that if we take the average distance between stars in a galaxy, about 5 light years, to get from one star to the next would take an average of 20600 years travelling at 165,000mph. thats just to go from one dot on this screen to the next. at that speed we can circle around the entire earth in 6mins. if you had set off on that journey at the time the Great Pyramids were being built, you would be just over a quarter of the way to the next star by now. that gives you an idea of the scale we are looking at here.
We need to do more research on teleportation, the speed of light is too slow.
@@vume7722 well based on current science teleportation would be impossible with human beings, due to our intricate make up on the atomic level we would need to dismantle our physical matter into something capable of moving through spacetime without speed limits then our device would need to re-construct ourselves on the other side keeping all of our consciousness and memory intact. any physical matter is limited by the speed of light, only photons and maybe other theoretical massless particles can match or bypass light speed. so the only foreseeable option to our current science to move our matter through space faster than light would be wormholes, which at that point if we are transporting our bodies through small wormhole devices then we might aswell just use them with spaceships instead of risking dismantling our physical matter through atomic teleportation. which currently we dont even have the science know how to make wormholes. but as all science in the past has shown, the science of today is nothing more than a stepping stone for the science of tomorrow. who knows what new discoveries we will make that will unlock all new possibilities of space, physics and time.
Manipulating the fabric of space seems to require extreme mass and speed, indeed we can not have the mass of photons,which I think have a mass its just that we don't have small numbers to work it out, mass-less particle could be able to teleport , hence you mention shredding of matter to sub atomic particles, so it can not be filtered by the fabric of space it just pass trough instead of being bound by it, ultimately breaking the light speed barrier, the possibility of the cosmic web we becoming riddled with holes ( wormholes) is plausible.
Vu Me FTL breaks causality
Wow, and that's just between two dots in that picture. Then there's the whole galaxy, and the hundreds of billions of galaxies to consider
So many stars and they look so close to each other. Knowing that it would take thousands of years to travel between each one, puts in to perspective the size of a Galaxy!
Universe: something a human mind can never completely comprehend.
Yes, we're not designed to comprehend these sort of things. The human mind only needed to comprehend small numbers in order to survive.
Yuri Neijhorst I mean you are not wrong. And against the odds, we survived and evolved past nature’s ways of evolution, building society etc and look where we are now
@@cerberusvaeiii4019 Still on earth... That's where we are.
marvar gare yes people are stupid and take a shit ton of stuff they don’t understand at all for granted, but seriously now, were the times when we were afraid of predators better
like a woman.
How anyone could look at this, and think we're alone in the universe is beyond me. This just one of TRILLIONS of galaxies too. We aren't even a spec of dust in the universe.
+John Wick They might say GOD did it, and uses gravity distortion to make things look far away, and all that nonsense.
The fact that people think the universe was created for humans and only humans bothers me. We are an advanced bread of ape living on a small planet orbiting an average star within a galaxy containing billions of other stars within a universe containing trillions of galaxies.Theres nothing special or unique about us besides being relatively intelligent compared to the life forms here on earth.
Josh Rubin Yea, but what if humans are not so advanced or intelligent, yet ?
+Dragnoxz Zanox thats exactly what I was saying. We are only smart compared to other life forms here on earth.
Josh Rubin But we have capitalism, and that is obsolete. Humanity is not yet ready to transfer into a modern society where capitalism is not clenched like a security blanket. I think humanity could be better than that.
It makes me feel so empty knowing i’ll never know whats out there
lol, such a poetic thought you have for your nickname ahah
Your username and your comment are my two moods in life.
Maybe you will who knows
@Charli D'Amelio and Her fans are retards Fucker lmao
How do you know for sure that you will never find out?
This for me is the most beautiful video found on the internet. I watch it regularly, to remember how small we are in this universe and to be amazed at the greatness of God. Thank you Dave for being able to combine images of superlative beauty with music that expresses the power of creation.
This is the most mind blowing, awe-inspiring video on UA-cam.
Agreed
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Arguably the most mind blowing. Probably watched it like 5 times 😂
Only for those intelligent enough to grasp its implication ... there aren't so many as one might think.
@@SkeletonKeey Me: Sits on couch reading a book about quantum mechanics" 😂
Complete agree
We are definitely not alone.
If your nearest neighbor is 4.244 light years away, you are alone.
Nothing is ever alone in the universe, everything is connected.
Yes
We are alone. Believe me.
@@wildehilde5744highly unlikely... but you have a right to your opinion and I have a right to mine
Still dropping by to watch this video from time to tome five years after it was posted. It still gives me goosebumps every single time.
Same bro! I'm sure you would know,
*EVERY TINY MINISCULE SPEC,*
*IS A GIGANTIC STAR WITH PLANETS AROUND IT!!!*
Especially when you're drunk lol, if your brain is thinking *DEEP* about that, it brings tears to your eyes
👍
Same!
Same here brother..👍
Each dot in this picture is billions of miles away from the dot that is next to it. Mind blowing to say the least !!
Billions is not even close. They are several light-years at the closest and several hundreds or thousands of light-years apart. 1 light-year = 6 trillion miles. Just as a frame of reference, the closest star to earth after the sun is about 4.2 light-years away. That's about 25 trillion miles.
When you look up the sky at night, you don't just see stars. You see hope, opportunities, curiosity, future, past and life .
Absolutley true ❤
Oh shut the fuck up
@@Marcscalves No, you!
And big dicks if your imaginative enough
i just feel humble and a part of something bigger than myself when i look up at the true night sky. Its a shame that city people don't know what i'm on about :/
I can’t stress this enough, I wish we had technology that could fly us from and to within hours. Honestly 😢 id gladly volunteer to go
yeah, why wouldn't u?!
Well.. even with all the technology, you would always be just going...
We dont have the technology but you sure have the imagination of visiting it
Try listening a chill music while thinking of flying through deep space..
@@samarthmw1623 Agreed
With our current technology it would take us 18,000 years to go to the nearest star from the sun. Now imagine conquering our own galaxy or even andromeda. R.I.P. And light itself takes 4.3 years to go to the nearest star.
We are alive guys !!!! YES WE ARE ... How incredible is that. Like being able to feel this whole thing.
Now just the take time to fathom the life that exists in that galaxy as of today.
Exactly! I've been saying this to myself a lot. How incredible it is to be alive in such a big universe, waiting to be studied and explored!! :D
@@BenjamintYT i know right!!! i mean i sometimes even question myself that there are literally so many stars like sun who probably have their own galaxy and systems as we have, and it cant be wrong to think that we aren't alone in this vast universe right??
@@chachatothe_right As it is a nice thought that there might be other life, it is a very disenchanting observation that, even if there is life, it is extremely unlikely that we will ever find it. We can barely make it out of our solar system let alone travel to far away galaxies, whose light will only reach us in millions of years. Though I, too, wish we had an interstellar future ahead much like science fiction movies, space travel might actually never be a thing.
So if there is life, we can wish the best for them from afar :)
We're alive and we think and we're aware of it. Cogito Ergo Sum
Goosebumps and a tear of awe.
I remember watching this when it had less than 10k views and had just been released...... i must have seen it a hundred times by now and i'm still in awe.
@michael getachew Your an idiot who doesn't even understand what scripture is let alone what it really means.
@super batarang yes
This photograph was unlike anything I had ever seen before in that time of my life. Everything was different from then onwards.
this picture is of the Andromeda Galaxy 2.537 million years ago
elliott v yup probably right now there seeing earth with out snow caps right now.
Not really. Relativity and the speed of light defines reality. This picture shows us Andromeda as it exists now.
WestOfEarth Would you mind explaining? I'm quite curious about what you mean.
WestOfEarth
*As it exists right now relative to us due to the nature and limits of the speed of light.
Ghost khiz. Oh, sure. Thanks for the clarification.
I like to believe there's millions of species out there living in those tiny dots, having problems of their own, maybe even star wars type of galactic wars between them and we're here just completely oblivious to what's happening around us
I dare anyone to say we are alone after you realize this was just one of atleast half a trillion galaxies, and thats just counting the ones we are able to see.
And thinking the world was made especially for us? forget about it
***** not all of us unfortunately
***** not just christianity
+azsxdcfvgbhnjmhn it is very possible that the world was made for us or at least it was engineered to hold life as we know it.
+HamGoof k christianity dont have a set day for the coming of christ, so they can be waiting a million years from now and they still would claim he will one day come, although by that time probably humans would have artificially and naturally evolved so much that they may be able to generate a mental image in matter at will, so they could simply make jesus appear.
commenter78 the earths properties could have come about naturally, even with random likelihoods of planet properties the odds are there are billions of earthlike planets in the universe
It's hard to watch this video and say "We're the only ones out there"
@@dnlgby not necessarily. other intelligent would be of different form, different size.. and maybe even different material. weather that'd be metallic life, cellular, or something else. *none* of these statements are "unlikely".
Actually it's pretty easy
We're the only ones out there.
That was easy! :D
Considering that Andromeda is just a single dot itself in the cosmic ocean of the Universe, yeah
Too bad we're so far away from each other. Probably for the best. We humans can't even go a decade without waging wars. I can't imagine a war in galactic scale.
Damn...this is making me feel insignificant, make me think that one day I am gonna be dead, and I will be part of that entire magnificent. But at the same time make me feel special, because for some reason, i am actually here.
We all are gonna die some day. So let's make our lives worth it. 💜 Good vibes to everyone reading this, attract your dreams, and make them come true.
Some day trillions of years from now entire universe is gong to die and when the last star dies out it will be nothing but a dark and cold universe. So what? Everything physical has to pass on someday even the universe.
The Legend Then the energy spreads so far apart within the universe it can no longer hold a spacial vacuum and then inverts like a rubber-band. Then BOOM the universe begins again in a large explosion.
@@theragingcyclone So then that makes me think from your comment, what if there was a God that would let us eternally exist and never let us humans go extinct?
@@kieran1418 When you look at things like this, it honestly makes me believe heavily in the possibility of Gods existence.
@@plexell735 Same thing here. But we just don't know if there is one. Surely there has to be a way to find out if God exists? Or maybe I'm just completely wrong lol
And we are a part of this. We are a product of this universe. I'm speechless.
I wonder how many worlds with life we just swept across without knowing..
Billions of planet with life but millions of planet with intelligent life i think
Guywith Aplan More than you or any of us can ever imagine.
None...............🤔 Not a single proof except theories and Signs Or human cannot parcieve that dimensions except after Dying. You know what i am talking about.
@@-abdul.manan- The fact that you dont have the grasp of what a theory is enough evidence for me to ignore your comment
@@-abdul.manan-
"Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." ~ Carl Sagan.
Maybe we aren't just looking in the right direction to turn our theories into reality.
"Andromeda in gigapixel [4K]"
*Plays it in 144p
sad
Me af
Ahahahaha
Me at *240p 😁
I am 1080
Oh wow... We are not alone.
I FOUND YOU AGAIN BLAKE (im accually stalking your profile xxx)
Meow Why so grumpy cat? :)
Meow F*ck off. All he said was "we are not alone," and you freak out, blow it out of proportion, and tell him he's an idiot. I'm gonna guess you are.. around 16 years old, an incredibly obnoxious atheist, and you like to spend your free time on on Reddit, ranting about how "stupid religious people are ruining the whole world," and how much you love Neil Degrasse Tyson, as well as posting pictures of anime fanfics on Tumblr, and watching those watered down Vsauce "science" videos to trick yourself into believing you're some kind of intellectual who actually understands the topics entailed in them.
Then you probably attempt to bring up said topics in your day-to-day League of Legends online conversation amongst your other Cheeto-and-Mountain-Dew-inhaling neckbeard friends, to create a false illusion of intelligence and boost your sense of self importance. You also probably have a nice collection of ninja swords you bought off Ebay, and sleep on a musty, old, saliva-encrusted futon with a Soul Eater themed blanket/pillow set, from which you watch constant Netflix cartoons (Dad, they're not cartoons, anime is serious, intelligent drama), pausing only for bathroom breaks and to yell to your mom to bring you a plate of Pizza Rolls.
That last paragraph got a little off topic and fantastical, but I stand by the first paragraph as most likely being very accurate. Calm down, and have a little more understanding, and common sense. Peace.
Meow The chances of us even existing in the first place is so incredibly small, that you need to consider that the chances of it ever happening again in even more-so unimaginably tiny. Everyone wants there to be life out there, but if there is I doubt it's anything vaguely similar to us. You can't appreciate enough just how almost impossibly immaculate everything needs to be for our planet to sustain life.
Flimmykins That all depends on the size of the universe though wouldn't it? If the universe is endless, then the laws of physics would say there are also endless identical copies of you somewhere out there. Who knows.
One of my favorite Video's here on UA-cam
And we're still arguing over money............
why shouldnt we?
Nick Johnson
Because it's so impossibly small compared to what everything is. We have the mental capacity to see millions of galaxies, which alone is more significant than all of our money has ever bought.
When faced with the level of technical scientific knowledge and technology we have achieved and created, no one on earth today should starve to death and be without lifes essentials. Money, at this point, is holding humanity back from its true potential.
Adam Green so we should just quit our jobs and become homeless and dedicate our lives to thinking about space which i couldnt give 2 fucks about?
Nick Johnson Self-centered much? What I'm saying is we spend our lives running in inconceivably small circles trying to accumulate money and status when in reality none of that matters beyond staying alive.
Enormous stars looking like grains of sand, we are surely not alone in this universe.
Or you wish. It's so scary to be alone, without any purpose, doomed to disappear. In reality, we still don't know, so nothing is "sure". For example, there may be tons of planets with life and zero planet with intelligent life, since in terms of evolution intelligence is really just an odd and particular path, with many favorable conditions needed. Or maybe there are many civilisations, who knows.
@@xenotypos To be honest we don't have any proof that intelligence is just one of many paths or the only one. We can't assume anything.
@@xenotypos yep fermi sounds scary, It's satisfying to imagine there's a species as intelligent as us out there struggling like us to find the secrets and probably join us in the adventure..
@@xenotypos And imagine, there could be a super advance life form saying just what you wrote - will we find intelligent life such as us in the galaxy, all we find are monkey like lifeforms that cannot even grasp the use of communication via telepathy.
Yes we are. Or at the very least, intelligent life on our level or above is so rare and far apart as to have no realistic chance of ever interacting, so we might as well be alone all the same.
You'd think that somewhere in all that mess of stars and planets there's gotta be a place where the better option to buying more printer ink is NOT to buy a whole new printer.
and their websites do not ask you to log-in using your facebook account, cause they are too smart by knowing that you don't have any fb account.
you Sam get my vote for "Comment of the day" ;) LOL!
Brother laser printers are the economical printer, I hear they use 1% as much ink as inkjets.
GoodNewsJim they actually use 0% of the ink an inkjet uses... Since toner isn't ink. LOL :)
Our problems are minuscule...
I love this video so much. I just keep coming back to it.
There are probably a 100 times more stars in that galaxy alone than there are pixels in this 4.3GB picture.
There are actually more stars in the whole universe comparing to the total amount of sand in this world we are living in.
@@cuaiajam1064 doesn't even compare, much more
@@frankiesslipal3730 it does compare, just think about all the sand in the world; the Sahara, under oceans, every beach, etc
@@jacob5416 there's trillions of galaxies there, each one of them with 100+ billions to trillions, it's a good comparison, but the amount of sand we have is not even close to the number of stars, that's why I said it's not even comparable. This blows my mind
@@frankiesslipal3730 true
The glimpse into infinity is just as terrifying as it is awe inspiring.
We know that the universe is not infinite. If it were there would be no dark night sky.
@@odonnelly46 bro was talking about the stars in Andromeda not the universe Lol
@@odonnelly46 We don't know that. The universe being infinite is well within the reaches of mathematical possibilities and your logic to suggest otherwise doesn't make much sense if you know about how slow light is on a cosmic scale.
@@JLCubing Wait how can that be? Andromeda isn't infinite by any means.
@@piccoloatburgerking infinity meaning the number of stars that we can't see with a normal telescope I'm assuming he said
we are a few simple insects
+guaxy muller Maybe you. Dont speak for everyone
Do not be offended if your icon is an insect. Lol
guaxy muller You sir, are in need of some glasses.
okai if not a bug is a worm or parasite clamarente what you see in the image so is a comic or whatever is similar lol
+BananaBread It's all relative :) We see but a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, we can only hear a fraction of the audio spectrum, we only experience a tiny fraction of time scales, of distance scales, of size scales, of energy scales. Compared to the full range of reality that we can access with the science and math tools we've developed, our bodies are laughably incapable of experiencing it in a meaningful or intuitive way. But we are exceedingly good at understanding our tiny slice of reality, because that's what our brains were made for.
Compared to some imaginary beings which could intuit all that we've spend hundreds of billions of dollars and centuries finding out, we really are like dumb little insects in a way.
Man, if only we can realize how little most of our problems are truly and how magnificent and grandiose the Universe is, Life would be more Peaceful.
Space is out there for us to explore and yet we are stuck on a rock killing each other
Imagine the technological advancement we could have achieved if there was no wars at all any given time. Wow.. We would be already on a trip to the closes star system i believe
True
@@TheKalippp1 I mean no, wwii led to the creation of the computer from alan turing's machine and also partly the creation of the passenger plane since armies had to develop planes rapidly and improve their technology. War forces innovation. Dont advance technology? country go boom.
@@TheKalippp1 no wars = no countries
@@maxim196 just big ass country
I DONT CARE IF IT NEVER LOADS IM WATCHING THIS IN 4K
lol
MY EYES !!!! THEY WERE NOT READY FOR THIS !!!! IT BURNS !!!
works fine on my phone
oh my goodness same
I did the same😂😂😂🤷🏻♂️
imagine intelligent life in the andromeda galaxy make this kind of video 4k milky way or what name they might have given :)
+Talay Erol Oh Boy, that's frightening.
+Waseem Senjer frightening, indeed.
+Talay Erol Lets make a giant photobomb for the event!
+Talay Erol Just the sheer math of all the stars in any galaxy alone makes this idea plausible.
indeed
The scale of the cosmos is truly humbling to behold.