Milky Way
Get ready for an astronomical adventure with “Milky Way”! This video invites you to embark on a captivating journey through our home galaxy. From its shimmering spiral arms to its countless stars and mysterious dark matter, we’re about to uncover the essential facts and insights that make the Milky Way a mesmerizing cosmic wonder. Join us as we delve into the structure and composition of our galaxy, understanding its vast size and the intricate dance of stars within it. From exploring star clusters and nebulae to learning about the supermassive black hole at its center, we’ll unravel the intricacies of this celestial masterpiece. So, prepare to enhance your knowledge and join us on this enlightening journey through the Milky Way. It’s an exploration that will leave you in awe, appreciating the beauty and grandeur of our galactic home and the mysteries it holds. 🌌✨🔍
Transcription for Milky Way
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Today, we will learn five marvelous facts about the Milky Way. Fact number one. The Milky Way is the Earth galaxy and is mostly made up of Dark Matter. This is a matter. We cannot see the rest of the Milky Way is made up of luminous matter, which is a matter that can be seen. It is a dark matter that creates and invisible. Halo around the Milky Way. fact number two The Milky Way is the size it is today because it has consumed many other galaxies in the past such as the Sagittarius dwarf galaxies.
It is estimated that in its roughly 13 billion year history. The Milky Way has consumed at least six other galaxies, but this figure could be even more currently. It is eating up the Galaxy that is closest to it the Canis Major dwarf Galaxy. number three the center of the Milky Way There is a super massive black hole called Sagittarius A star. It is estimated that this black hole has a diameter of 14 million miles, which is about 2,000 times as long as a diameter of Earth.
This is just the black hole itself. The outer disc of the Sagittarius A star is over four million times the mass of our sun. The Milky Way is black hole. It’s roughly 26,000 light years away from Earth. Fact number four we can’t take photos of the whole Milky Way. Yes, we can see part of the Milky Way from Earth, but we have never seen a whole complete photo of the Milky Way itself. There are no real photos of the full Milky Way Out There simply because the Milky Way galaxy is two big for this reason.
We can only take pictures of the Milky Way from inside the Galaxy which means we don’t have an image of the Milky Way as a whole pictures that you’ve seen of the whole Milky Way either and another galaxy or illustrations of what scientists think the Milky Way looks like from what photos we have of it. Number five everything in space including the Milky Way is constantly moving. The Milky Way is part of the local group of galaxies, which is a cluster of galaxies which includes the Andromeda galaxy the Messiah 33 and other dwarf galaxies.
It is estimated that the Milky Way is moving at about 600 kilometers per second, which is roughly 22 million kilometers per hour that is about sticks times as fast as a bolt of lightning. I hope you enjoyed my five marvelous facts about the Milky Way. See you soon.
