04 August 2023

Consider the Milky Way...


The human mind is not capable of contemplating the vastness of a universe, so this video encourages the viewer to contemplate instead a rather tiny, cosmically insignificant galaxy - our Milky Way.  It is, after all, the only thing we can see in our night sky (except for the Andromeda galaxy).  This presentation is an attempt to give us a perspective on its size. (via Neatorama)
"...you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.”

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful, calmy presented, informative - we need more of them…

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  2. Fantastic method of presentation.

    Even better than this:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOGxePBs50

    But I have to winder if The Simpsons covered this too?

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  3. Truly worth the watch, what a novel way of breaking it down.

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