Galaxy
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But the coolest thing of all is that eensy-weensy creatures on a rubble pile around a totally average star in a totally average
galaxy
can win the battle to understand their world.
Every dot in this video is a
galaxy.
If we stay on this line, we will map every large
galaxy
in the observable universe by 2060.
I want to know how that hydrogen gas gets into a
galaxy
and creates a star.
Each is a galaxy, fully like ours or Andromeda, which looks so small and faint because its light has taken 10 billion light-years to get to us.
Many people suspect that just as we've gone from believing in one solar system to zillions of solar systems, one
galaxy
to many galaxies, we have to go to many Big Bangs from one Big Bang, perhaps these many Big Bangs displaying an immense variety of properties.
In fact, what they were seeing was not a trail from some alien spaceship, but it was a glimpse of our own home galaxy, the Milky Way.
But now, every species in the
galaxy
is in a mad dash to get there first and claim it for themselves.
Time to put this alien tech to work and make life better for everyone in the
galaxy.
Whether we're born in San Francisco, or Sudan, or close to the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust.
Our sun is one of 400 billion stars in our galaxy, and we know that many other stars have planetary systems.
And the edge of our
galaxy
is 75,000 light years away, and the nearest
galaxy
to us, 2.5 million light years.
And we're a very young technology in an old galaxy, and we don't yet know whether it's possible for technologies to persist.
We are residents of one small planet in a corner of the Milky Way
galaxy.
As Stephen Hawking famously said, we're just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that's in orbit around a typical star, which is on the outskirts of a typical galaxy, and so on.
So let's go out further, till we're outside the galaxy, and look back, and yeah, there's the huge
galaxy
with spiral arms laid out in front of us.
Billions of years ago and billions of light-years away, the material at the center of a
galaxy
collapsed towards a supermassive black hole.
And then, immediately, what I call the first era of novelty, with the first atom, the first star, the first black hole, the first
galaxy.
When human knowledge has achieved a factor 10 to the 40, it will pretty much control the entire galaxy, and will be looking beyond.
When that cluster of stars dissipated into the galaxy, the orbit of Sedna would have been left as a fossil record of this earliest history of the Sun.
Because we are on Earth and Earth is spinning around the Sun, and the Sun is hurtling through our
galaxy
at about half a million miles per hour.
Well, in order to figure out how we came to be, we first need to understand how our
galaxy
came to be.
This is a picture of our galaxy, the Milky Way, today.
Over time, you get enough stuff in one place that the hydrogen gas, which was initially well mixed with the dark matter, starts to separate from it, cool down, form stars, and you get a small
galaxy.
Over time, over billions and billions of years, those small galaxies crash into each other and merge and grow to become larger galaxies, like our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
In that universe, you wouldn't get our
galaxy.
Or any other
galaxy.
We already talked about how our
galaxy
and many other galaxies wouldn't even be here without dark matter.
Both of these pictures are showing you a region around a
galaxy
like the Milky Way.
And those will help refine our movies of the whole universe and the entire
galaxy.
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