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    Prepare to have your mind expanded! The video "How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think" takes viewers on a journey through the vastness of the cosmos, illustrating just how immense the universe really is compared to Earth. Using stunning visuals and compelling data, this video puts into perspective the scales of planets, stars, and galaxies, revealing the mind-boggling size of the universe we inhabit.
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Komentáře • 964

  • @BogeyDopeYT
    @BogeyDopeYT Před měsícem +432

    The real mind blower is this: We have equipment that can see things that are millions of light years away, but they are in effect looking back in time. If something is 1 million light years away, then the light that is reaching the viewer today left that object 1 million years ago. When you look into the sky at objects, you can never see them at the present time. Even the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to get to your eye. Every time you see the sun, the image is 8 minutes old.

    • @Diomedene
      @Diomedene Před měsícem +50

      Of course the same applies to objects that are close, although the travel time becomes incredibly short. It also takes time for signals to travel the nervous system so everything that we see, hear, feel, smell or taste is being perceived as it was in the past. We never really know what the present is like.

    • @rlciii
      @rlciii Před měsícem

      So we’re told. I’m not saying the wrong you and I don’t have the equipment to verify the information given. I’m OK with the trustee but let’s not take all the scientist for more than 60% of what they say… on a sidenote thanks to Apple for shittiest voice to text ever. From now on I’ll just type what I wanna say because it takes longer to edit apples inconsistencies to actually type my own words…rant sorry

    • @Snaakie83
      @Snaakie83 Před měsícem +32

      The mind blowing thing for me is that even though it has travelled for billions of years, for the photons...of which light exists...no time has passed.

    • @pddaawwgg
      @pddaawwgg Před měsícem +5

      That is bonkers to think about.

    • @AttackChefDennis
      @AttackChefDennis Před měsícem +3

      Since the advent of telescopes, we have been looking at things in the sky. With technology advancing came the ability to plot where galaxies actually are when the light left them.

  • @Paul_Allaker8450
    @Paul_Allaker8450 Před měsícem +106

    To try and understand differences in number sizes I always remember this:
    1 million seconds is roughly 11 days
    1 billion seconds is 32 years!
    1 trillion seconds is 31,000 years!!
    Mind blowing 🤯

  • @dwood21851
    @dwood21851 Před měsícem +350

    I don't think that people argue the whole alien thing correctly. I don't think the argument is whether aliens exist, it's whether they have visited Earth. Just because there may be a planet with intelligent life on it doesn't mean that they have the ability to travel the universe. And even if they did have the ability to travel the universe, it doesn't mean that they would come to this planet.

    • @johnnehrich9601
      @johnnehrich9601 Před měsícem

      And they, and we, may not last that long relative to the time even for light to travel between the two. Only since about 1900 have we had the technology to use radio waves and we are still a long way from actually traveling any significant distance. Not even 1-1/2 century compared to a galaxy over 13 billion years. (150 vs. 13,000,000,000 years) With luck, our civilization will hold, but we may yet destroy ourselves via nuclear war, run-away climate change, an unbelievable natural catastrophe like the Yellowstone volcano, a sufficiently big meteor strike, radiation for a too nearby supernova, or who knows what.
      We may not even be able to comprehend other intelligent life if we were to find it. Imagine say something like a beehive where the individual bees, like the individual neurons in our brain, are not intelligent, but the system as a whole is.
      On the other hand, the study of abiogenesis (origin of life) is suggesting more and more than atoms just self-assemble into ever more complicated compounds. We have found the various components such as amino acids on meteors. Basic life may be invariably present in any spot in space with the right conditions.

    • @hexenwulfen
      @hexenwulfen Před měsícem +14

      you read my mind

    • @Richard2003
      @Richard2003 Před měsícem +9

      Interesting in that the multitude of UFO sightings have occurred since the first nuclear explosions.

    • @HRConsultant_Jeff
      @HRConsultant_Jeff Před měsícem +14

      And if they had that kind of technology, we really don't want to meet them as they are so far advanced from us and would not be biologically based as travel and radiation limits many of those groups. It is more likely that a group would reach us by mechanical means.

    • @timradde4328
      @timradde4328 Před měsícem +25

      If they have the ability to visit here then they are smart enough to avoid here too.

  • @Ozai75
    @Ozai75 Před měsícem +51

    Arthur C. Clarke once said this about if there is other intelligent life in space. "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

    • @rabast
      @rabast Před měsícem +4

      It's a good quote, but I'd disagree. It would be far more terrifying if there was no other life anywhere than on Earth.

    • @johnbeans2000
      @johnbeans2000 Před měsícem

      Arthur C clarke was also a you know... living in Sri Lanka...

    • @roshansrirangarajan7568
      @roshansrirangarajan7568 Před 2 dny

      @@johnbeans2000 which is a paradise lol

    • @firepowerjohan
      @firepowerjohan Před 8 hodinami

      I don't agree with Clarke. If we are not alone is frightening, since we are just something maybe something without meaning. Contrary, if we are alone then the Universe is created for us.

  • @robbob5302
    @robbob5302 Před měsícem +167

    The Hubble telescope unlocked the story of the universe for us, in ways never possible before. It turned the lights on in a giant mansion, where previously all we had ever seen was a tiny corner of a closet.

    • @4thlinemaniac356
      @4thlinemaniac356 Před měsícem

      False Naradigms @ Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Mars Anomilies & Beyond channels @ the final days channel @ sci Fi world channel Kazarians video

    • @nightfangs2910
      @nightfangs2910 Před měsícem +4

      Very good analogy 🤟🤟😎😎

    • @kylereese4822
      @kylereese4822 Před měsícem +5

      The James Web Telescope is unlocking even more of the Universe.... and it`s replacement is on the drawing board already.....

    • @kylereese4822
      @kylereese4822 Před měsícem

      I`m not the only one to think that Star Ship by SpaceX is the physical limit of rockets when the larger gen 3 is operational... The next logical jump has to be bringing Enterprise type Star Ship on-line by using the raw materials from retired SpaceX Star Ships...

    • @4thlinemaniac356
      @4thlinemaniac356 Před měsícem

      @@kylereese4822 @Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & adam1414 & Mars Anomilies & Beyond channels.

  • @shanepye7078
    @shanepye7078 Před měsícem +193

    How do we know all this?
    Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background, various captured light and measuring its red and blue shifts, x-ray observatories - many different spectrums, the behaviour of galaxies relative to one another and measuring the gravitational wells, ect.

    • @mikeg.4211
      @mikeg.4211 Před měsícem +8

      And most obviously, you would think, telescopes.

    • @ruub9971
      @ruub9971 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@mikeg.4211I hope that was a joke because..

    • @mikeg.4211
      @mikeg.4211 Před měsícem +4

      @@ruub9971 because plain old visual telescopes which he didn’t mention are irrelevant? I’m supposed to guess at your intellectually stunning point?

    • @welrod94
      @welrod94 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@mikeg.4211I mean it's a good question! We couldnt even get a good picture of the moon or Mars for a very long time but we know what is millions of years from us. We dont even know what's in the bottom of our lakes and oceans but we know what's way out from us. I ain't saying it's a lie or anything I'm just saying it's a good question. Also said they use "wiener filtering" to help them😂

    • @WookieWarriorz
      @WookieWarriorz Před měsícem +1

      a good couple thousand years of human progress haha

  • @MrDeadstu
    @MrDeadstu Před měsícem +50

    This is why it is important to fund scientific research, all this information was compiled passively using a variety of telescopes and just observing and writing notes.
    One of the latest telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope is basically breaking some theories because we can see further and in different wavelengths better than ever.
    The JWST is not on Earth though, it's not even orbiting Earth, it's way far away and orbits the Sun around 1.5 million miles from Earth. It's images are amazing.

    • @Lokken918
      @Lokken918 Před měsícem +1

      Always bothered me the US didn't build the largest particle accelerator. They could have dwarfed CERN if they wanted to.

    • @esaedvik
      @esaedvik Před měsícem +2

      @@Lokken918 IMO better to share the costs. Same goes for new forms of energy production like fusion reactors that are being built larger and larger atm. They will affect us all, I hope.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Před měsícem +7

      It’s also important to fund & push for top notch education in our schools. We’re doing our country an incredible disservice by screwing over our schools.

    • @TonyM1961
      @TonyM1961 Před měsícem

      ​@@Lokken918 How can we know for sure that they haven't and just never told anyone? How many decades did they manage to keep even the existence of Area 51 secret before even a hint got out? Area 52 (for lack of a better term) could easily be built as a large underground complex that is compartmentalized in such a way that precious few would ever even know what was being built. They might think that all they are doing is building a modern version of Cheyenne Mountain if all they ever see is just the section they are working on and told that the complex is a new, more reliable bunker for the government in case of attack. Stranger things have happened

    • @xCeLProDucTionZz
      @xCeLProDucTionZz Před měsícem +1

      Just imagine if all money spent on the miltary in the last 100 years went into science I think we’d be having journeys to the moon as a holiday

  • @John_Locke_108
    @John_Locke_108 Před měsícem +98

    Scariest part of the size of the universe is that fact it's always growing. Just trying to fathom the size our our galaxy is hard enough.

    • @tommc3622
      @tommc3622 Před měsícem +11

      That, and the fact that it works in reverse.
      Down to the quantum scale, we don't really know how small things go... or what happens there.
      ...
      "Size" is a terrifying word.
      ...
      Imagine the size of the universe from a quantum perspective.... it hurts the human brain.

    • @_Mikekkk
      @_Mikekkk Před měsícem +2

      Yes, and we will never know what is beyond observable universe because space is growing faster than speed of light. And anything beyond observable universe can not interact with us, even gravitation, because it is also limited by speed of light. So it does not matter if there is anything or not.

    • @JD43232
      @JD43232 Před měsícem

      You have no proof that its growing, your science doesnt even have proof for gravity or real pictures of earth from space. You are just believing stories......its just sciencefiction.

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae Před měsícem +1

      What is also true, most what we see is not there anymore, because light took this long to get to us.

    • @TonyM1961
      @TonyM1961 Před měsícem +2

      Not JUST growing, but doing so faster than the speed of light and still accelerating. Even if we were to develop a light speed engine, we could travel forever and never find the edge of the universe

  • @yorkieandthechihuahua
    @yorkieandthechihuahua Před měsícem +44

    As Monty Python sang, "So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth. And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space because there's bugger all down here on Earth!"

  • @teddtarr
    @teddtarr Před měsícem +33

    "We are a way for the universe to know itself."
    ...Carl Sagan (from an episode of
    'COSMOS')

    • @4thlinemaniac356
      @4thlinemaniac356 Před měsícem

      Never A Space Agency Sagan is a school @ Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Mars Anomilies & Beyond channels @ Jenny Constantine channel Year Of the Dragon video.

    • @4thlinemaniac356
      @4thlinemaniac356 Před měsícem

      A Schill paid to misinform @ Spacebusters channel NASA Fan Boy questions #1-#15

    • @TheUnfulfilledOne
      @TheUnfulfilledOne Před měsícem +1

      Satellites are a hoax as well.The Earth is an Encapsulated World/Environment.The Celestial Bodies are All visibly and factually small and they orbit around inside The Earth.There is no room or place for any Satellites.Again there are many Land Towers,which use Electromagnetic Waves or Radio Frequency Waves to create,generate,copy,redirect and transport signals/vibrations All-across The World.Satellites are completely unnecessary.The Ruling Dark Powers use Balloons,Airships,Airplanes,Gliders,Helicopters,Rockets,Drones and Land Towers to survey,map out,record and/or broadcast Everything.It is much more easier and far more efficient to use Balloons,Airships,Airplanes,Gliders,Helicopters,Rockets,Drones and Land Towers to survey,map out,record and/or broadcast Everything instead of Satellites as Balloons,Airships,Airplanes,Gliders,Helicopters,Rockets,Drones and Land Towers are much more closer to The Ground and The Earth and thus:the connection itself is far more closer,faster and clearer.To My understanding creating,building and launching Hundreds,Thousands or more Satellites into Outer Space is incredibly foolish,dangerous and life-threatening.If they ever fall down from the sky,they would be like falling missiles to people.People would be like walking targets.If Satellites truly existed,they would be extremely unwise and unsafe.If Satellites are real they would eventually become too overcrowded up there.Overcrowded Satellites would make Outer Space Travel extremely impractical,uncomfortable,risky,dangerous,fatal and lethal.A Cosmic Wall of floating Satellites would create a Prison World with a Cosmic Minefield - A Barricade of Satellites.People would effectively be trapped on their Own World unable to escape.Sooner or later those same Satellites will fall down if they don't have constant energy/power.If Satellites truly existed,Cosmic Space Travel as We know it would be Impossible or Suicidal.Satellites are a hoax designed in order to convince The Public that Outer Space is real.Satellites don't exist!
      Gravity is not real either.Just think about it.Water cannot be bent.Water is always perfectly level.It does not curve.Water is always Flat on the surface and it can Never be otherwise under any circumstance.If Gravity truly existed and was a fully functioning Force it would be severely limiting,restraining and restricting.According to My knowledge and intuition if Gravity was real it would function like a "Super-glue/Mega-glue Force" perpetually holding Everyone and Everything glued to the ground like Granite.There would be no jumping off the ground,no jumping Creatures,no flying Creatures,no flying Insects,no flying Birds,no Air Travel,no Balloons,no Airships,no Airplanes,no Gliders,no Helicopters,no Rockets,no Drones,no Space Travel,no Satellites and no Spaceships.The sheer "Pressing Power" of Gravity would prohibit,force and ground Everyone and Everything to the ground Forever.Nothing and Nobody would ever be able to leave the ground or to get off the ground Ever.Everyone and Everything in existence would only be able to move Horizontally.Vertical Travel would be Impossible and extremely painful,because of "The Enormous Pressing Force" from Gravity.Everyone and Everything would be Eternally weighted down by Gravity.There would be no escape.Gravity is a false theory designed in order to convince The Public that Outer Space is real.Gravity doesn't exist!
      Outer Space doesn't exist.Earth is the only World there is.There are no other Physical Cosmic
      Worlds out there and there is no Infinite Cosmic Spatial Vacuum Void.Outer Space has "3 Enormous Problems":Problem 1 - Survivability - Cosmic Space is completely and inherently uninhabitable,
      inhospitable and unliveable.This doesn't seem/feel right.If Outer Space truly existed
      it should therefore be completely and inherently habitable,hospitable and liveable.If Outer Space was real it would be 100% welcoming of All-potential Beings,Creatures and Life-forms.This means that Outer Space must be "Breathable",because otherwise Everyone and Everything would immediately and perpetually suffocate and no Life-forms would ever emerge or survive in such a lethal Cosmic Universe.Problem 2 - Cosmic Travel - All-vehicles must push "Something" in order to move and go "Somewhere".In Earth's Atmosphere Automobiles push "Air" to move,Airplanes also push "Air" to move and Cruise Ships push "Water" to move,but Outer Space has no Atmosphere.You cannot travel to/in Outer Space,because The Vacuum of Space neutralizes All-pushing power/travel power.This means that Space Travel is impossible,that No One has ever left The Earth,that No One has ever traveled to Space and that every single Space Mission from the beginning to today is a lie.If Outer Space truly existed it would need to have an "Atmosphere" in order for Outer Space Travel to be possible.Problem 3 - Vast Separation - Celestial Space is just far too tremendously vast as a territory.All-Life-forms are separated,because of the "Humongous Distance" between them.This is not convenient.If Outer Space was real it wouldn't be so gargantuan,because it has to be much smaller and more "Tightly-Knit",so that All-potential Life-forms can locate and
      discover each other.Outer Space is a lie designed in order to convince The Public that Extraterrestrial Beings exist.The total "Inhospitableness" and "Unfeasibility" of Outer Space proves that Outer Space cannot exist,because Outer Space doesn't exist!

  • @paperbagfilms
    @paperbagfilms Před měsícem +16

    To quote Jeff Goldblum, in Jurassic Park - “Life finds a way.”

    • @darkzer0670
      @darkzer0670 Před měsícem +3

      You could've thrown in at least 3 "Uh's" in that quote.

  • @marklane58
    @marklane58 Před měsícem +7

    I'm glad you mentioned the ant. They are tiny cleaners that come to work for free then silently leave when they’re done. They are as much a part of the consciousness of the universe as we are. Respect life, our planet and each other. Thanks for your reaction, I love it. Maybe next we can do consciousness, quantum physics or time? And will it all lead back to music in the end?

  • @elvwood
    @elvwood Před měsícem +10

    Fun fact: Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech is quoted in its entirety in a very unusual piece by Nightwish which is almost entirely orchestral.

  • @rxlxviii
    @rxlxviii Před měsícem +17

    The Hubble telescope did a lot for our knowledge of the universe. They measure the distance using redshift paralax, supernovae, and other techniques. . However, they must also account for the gravity of all objects, which bends light. So as you can imagine, there are a lot of complex calculations in measuring how far things are away. With computers, these calculations became faster.

    • @dracoargentum9783
      @dracoargentum9783 Před měsícem +1

      Think of the discoveries that James Web will grant us!

  • @GravelBone367
    @GravelBone367 Před měsícem +20

    Mankind it’s been mapping the stars for centuries. The Aztec mapped the stars using reflection Ponds.
    The ancient Egyptians mapped the stars. Early physicists like Galileo and Newton. Greeks named all their Gods after the constellations.
    And you have modern technology, like infrared, telescopes radio telescopes the Hubble telescope. We were looking at the sky for a long time that’s all I know so much about it already.

  • @TheRAYviewYT
    @TheRAYviewYT Před měsícem +20

    Imagine a microscopic organism thinking it was king of the universe. For humans, it’s about the same comparison

  • @laierr
    @laierr Před měsícem +5

    The moment i realized you truly cannot comprehend the size: that ant argument.
    The difference between us and ants are really insignificant even on our solar neighborhood level.
    The best comparison I ever came across was: If you shrink the scale of the universe so the Sun would be the size of a marble, the next closest star would be about 400 kilometers away. It's about the distance from Dallas to San Antonio. Or more than the distance from London to Paris. Two marbles. And pretty much nothing in between.
    So yeah, we and ants are on the same scale in that sense.

  • @captainshakesbeard2453
    @captainshakesbeard2453 Před měsícem +15

    Haha! Mrs Barbell was totally mind-blown.

  • @hardware20x
    @hardware20x Před měsícem +10

    Keep in mind, just 100 years ago we were still riding horse drawn carriages for transportarion completely oblivious as to what was outside our solar system. Huge advancement in technology has happend in the past 80 years or so. Now is a good time to be living in the whole history of our existence, as we witness these advancements in realtime.

    • @Ranganation
      @Ranganation Před měsícem

      100 years ago was WW1, the first car was built in 1885. But i totally get your point though. in the last 100 years technology has come so fkn far

    • @jamesallen2909
      @jamesallen2909 Před 23 dny

      @@Ranganationnobody could afford the first cars. Most people are still absolutely using horses for transportation up until around the 1910-20’s.

    • @scottrackley4457
      @scottrackley4457 Před 21 dnem

      Messier was cataloging galaxies in 1784

  • @real_lostinthefogofwar
    @real_lostinthefogofwar Před měsícem +44

    A trillion is a lot, a trillion seconds is 31,000 years

    • @Snipergoat1
      @Snipergoat1 Před měsícem +6

      Closer to 32K years but lets not quibble over a millennium or two. After all what is 32ish billion seconds between friends?

    • @real_lostinthefogofwar
      @real_lostinthefogofwar Před měsícem +3

      @@Snipergoat1 I rounded down for simplicity, it got the point across

  • @T_Moros
    @T_Moros Před měsícem +6

    Beautiful. As an astronomy enthusiast I love to see their reactions to these types of videos. They can also see the most powerful objects in the universe. I love it.

  • @perryedwards4746
    @perryedwards4746 Před měsícem +30

    telescopes treacle, galaxy's appear as stars, and you can see how far away, by their red shift and many other things, but it's our telescopes

  • @LakotaCat
    @LakotaCat Před 4 dny

    The hosts asked for info on how we know this stuff: We have hundreds of satellites in space, and big telescopes all over the planet that are sending info to us all the time. It started with the invention of the telescope in 1609. Gallelio was the first to start mapping the stars and looking and recording what was in space. Our instruments send back different types of waves, like sound, infrared, xray, etc. And that helps us fill in information on what these objects are made up of, whether they are moving toward us or moving away, etc. But for all that, we can only see the "observable universe" and will never be able to see beyond it. AND we are looking into the really distant past, like millions of years, sometime BILLIONS. So we don't even know if those objects are still there. Its all so FASCINATING!!! I love learning about space.

  • @kidpoker007
    @kidpoker007 Před měsícem +11

    James Webb telescope can see back 14 Billion years and even further probably in the future

    • @robbob5302
      @robbob5302 Před měsícem +7

      Technically, it can only see back 13B years. Or a little more.
      Nothing can see 14 billion years because, well, the universe didn’t exist yet.
      ☹️

    • @pudder68
      @pudder68 Před měsícem

      @@robbob5302 some now estimate it around 26.3billion now .. this is a hot topic right now

  • @GatorNick
    @GatorNick Před měsícem +6

    Here's a good analogy of how big those numbers are:
    It would take you just over 11 days to count 1 million seconds.
    It would take over 31 years to count 1 billion seconds.

    • @didierleonard7125
      @didierleonard7125 Před měsícem

      Another one? You remind when he talked about cosmic inflation in the video ? This cosmic inflation expended the universe from the Planck size 10~43 meters to the size of a basket ball in 10-33 of a sec, while since then the universe only reached roughly 10exp25 meters in diameters in 14 billions years… ( at least the observable part of it)

  • @Arrowflynn1897
    @Arrowflynn1897 Před měsícem +19

    The one thing that has always intrigued me, is that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the earth.

    • @John_Locke_108
      @John_Locke_108 Před měsícem +2

      Yup.
      Speaking of that. These two should listen to Every Grain Of Sand by Bob Dylan.

    • @Kaddywompous
      @Kaddywompous Před měsícem +1

      WAY more in fact.

    • @Arrowflynn1897
      @Arrowflynn1897 Před měsícem +1

      @jx maybe they will if they read your reply.

    • @Arrowflynn1897
      @Arrowflynn1897 Před měsícem

      @

    • @Arrowflynn1897
      @Arrowflynn1897 Před měsícem

      @Kaddy you just way more intrigued me. Now I wonder if all those stars came together as one, how huge would that be?

  • @Rising_Pho3nix_23
    @Rising_Pho3nix_23 Před 9 dny

    The part that breaks my brain is the notion of "outside". Like, what's outside of the universe? Does it go on forever and ever? Does it have a wall? What's on the other side of the wall? No matter how you look at it, the entire universe is infinite. That means that there are infinite combinations of particles and energies, and infinite copies of each. That means there are infinite copies of you reading this comment.

  • @robbob5302
    @robbob5302 Před měsícem +4

    When I was a small child, I had a stuffed animal I believed came to me from the most distant planet, orbiting the most distant star, in the most distant galaxy in the entire universe!

  • @Lance_Arn
    @Lance_Arn Před měsícem +3

    How do we know ? There are these thing's called telescopes, very big telescopes.
    I possess 5 telescopes and what I see in my night sky is awe inspiring and very humbling.

  • @MrDoot-hj2ir
    @MrDoot-hj2ir Před 13 dny

    We should show videos like this at school. The next generations should know this from the start, to fight against our self-centred arrogance

  • @milestone76
    @milestone76 Před měsícem

    "we are the universe discovering itself" carl sagan ....let that sink in ....

  • @Patreides9
    @Patreides9 Před měsícem +6

    "Oh, do you still feel small? Just a speck of life on an ocean wave, Does it pull us all?
    Does it pull us all?... No I don't want to be the last, I don't want to be the first, I just need a hope and a light to follow, Like sailors look to stars to find their way home, I'm learning to breathe on my own." (Nerina Pallot)

  • @kidpoker007
    @kidpoker007 Před měsícem +5

    The Universe is probably teaming with life

  • @shanemwood
    @shanemwood Před měsícem +2

    Think about how old the Earth is and how many different civilizations have came and gone. Previous life forms on Earth may have been super advanced and left already. This could've happened many times over. Mind blowing 🤯

  • @GenericUsername1388
    @GenericUsername1388 Před měsícem +1

    I think what's interesting about the size of the universe is that humans are a lot closer to the size of the observable universe than the smallest unit in existence, the planck length

  • @gkiferonhs
    @gkiferonhs Před měsícem +14

    There are two possibilities. Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are frightening.

    • @mikeg.4211
      @mikeg.4211 Před měsícem +2

      A very H.P. Lovecraft thought.

    • @chaospoet
      @chaospoet Před měsícem +5

      Technically there is a 3rd. We're not alone but they're so far away from us we'll never know it.

    • @stephenochosiete9869
      @stephenochosiete9869 Před měsícem +1

      4. What about if we are the first.
      5. What if others were long before us. Or just missed us.
      6. Where is the f@cking end of the universe? Is there a wall? Mind blowing!

    • @TwitchCronos100
      @TwitchCronos100 Před měsícem +2

      @@stephenochosiete9869 what would an "end" even look like, sounds impossible for there to be one, our universe is probably one massive sphere that is getting bigger and bigger since the big bang, but for something to just appear out of nowhere is also impossible to imagine, so it would just have to like infinitely go on and on in some way. It's crazy to even think about, if there is an end then how did that get created?

    • @XcL-Ignites
      @XcL-Ignites Před měsícem

      ​@@TwitchCronos100what if the Multiverse exist?

  • @christafart4202
    @christafart4202 Před měsícem +4

    I'm not hating on them or anyone else but it's amazing that there is a group of people that don't know this basic knowledge. But also good that these videos are out there for people to discover it for thr first time.

    • @RoadDoug
      @RoadDoug Před měsícem

      The educational system is a farce these days.
      It should be common knowledge.

    • @lamaglama6231
      @lamaglama6231 Před měsícem +4

      I think there are far more people not knowing this than people that do. I also wish more people would have the time and the desire to learn but I am already grateful if they at least not fall for conspiracy theories.

    • @Calamity_Jack
      @Calamity_Jack Před měsícem +1

      @@lamaglama6231 I agree. IME, the majority of people are only mildly interested in what lies beyond the visible sky, but not enough to really dig into it. For some people, though, the subject is absolutely fascinating and they learn all they can about it. I wish that ratio was flipped and the majority of people were interested in the sciences. I suspect our world would be a lot more peaceful and advanced. I guess a more modest wish would be that people not actively disbelieve science and instead believe in conspiracy theories.

    • @nadjasunflower1387
      @nadjasunflower1387 Před měsícem

      @@lamaglama6231 umm...because no conspiracy theory has ever been proven right ??? lol the only thing a conspiracy theory needs in being proven truth...is time. Don't get me wrong...there are some truly wonky ones out there. Those are the ones / kind I'm really hoping your referring too.
      Because there are others based solidly in facts, but then big brother steps in and tells us " that's not how it happened. " then they spin up their media machine to correlate and drive that narrative. If that's not enough, they then spin up the disinformation machine (US has been going this for years, since the 50's when it comes to UFO's)to disseminate BS so that when it's proven false, the rest of the population goes...oh, well that's just bunk then right ? *clickes ignore button* which is what they in the end want. the more you ignore, the more they get away with.

    • @tdrxy
      @tdrxy Před měsícem

      Its only basic if you re interested in this. I m interested in history,philosophy,stoicism,sport activities,body anatomy and so this magnitude of the universe is somewhat new to me. Cool and all to some degree but to go to the n’th galaxy in other universe in qvadrilion light years away and to talk with so much confidence of what is and what could be seems ridiculous to me. Current time scientists always tought they knew everything,right before the double slit experiment many theorised there isnt anything new to learn and discover about science,their innate curiosity and their know it all attitudes are very funny to me,the same way modern scoiety mocks religion the same way i see these scientists analyzing whats on the other side of the universe

  • @gaia_x_3322
    @gaia_x_3322 Před 2 dny

    “We do not reach to the end of the universe, for such does not exist.”
    Cosmonaut, Semajse 1975

  • @autohmae
    @autohmae Před měsícem +2

    15:52 but the HUGE problem is: they are so far away, we have no way to communicate with them, if we send a message and by the time it reaches them they are gone or when they send a reply and it reaches us we are gone. Not just society as we know it, but like: the sun has gone out and the planet went dark, etc.

  • @cosmocassidy420
    @cosmocassidy420 Před měsícem +9

    They see the stars with telescopes like JWST but keep in mind what they see is the image of the galaxies as how they looked as they looked however many light years ago depending on how far away they are. A majority of those stars are not there anymore but the image of those stars dieing has not had enough time to reach us yet. That's why they say that when JWST looks at the sky it's looking further back in time because that's how long light takes to get to us.
    I love this video I've probably watched it 100 times over the years.

    • @slickboyd
      @slickboyd Před měsícem

      Light years is a measurement of distance, not time. Saying "light years ago" would be a wrong use of the term.

  • @seansimms8503
    @seansimms8503 Před měsícem +9

    The key is this....humans have mastered every known wavelength of the Ultramagneted Spectrum, from UV to infrared we have telescopes and sensors that employ all these energies which have different properties, there's a gas cloud in the way that obstructs visible light then shoot infra or uv or micro waves at it, human machines are even using subatomic particles like muons and neutrinos....photons, electrons, you name it, there's a machine using it, they even have microscopes that can image individually single atoms😅

    • @UltraCasualPenguin
      @UltraCasualPenguin Před měsícem +1

      Ultramagneted?
      What machine is using neutrinos? You do know that they pass through everything like it's nothing, right? Roughly million of them pass through your body every second.

    • @seansimms8503
      @seansimms8503 Před měsícem

      @@UltraCasualPenguin yes, Ultramagnetic...yes, for every billion that passes through, one will react with matter, Ice Cube Observatory in Antarctica has been harvesting neutrinos for decades, Oak Island scientists were using devices uses muon detectors to see through the ground...

    • @neb-taui-djeser1060
      @neb-taui-djeser1060 Před měsícem +1

      we don't shoot micro- or uv waves at something, we just detect or catch. You don't send out rays to see you receive light that comes to you if you look or not.

    • @seansimms8503
      @seansimms8503 Před měsícem

      @@neb-taui-djeser1060 sure we do smart guy, have you ever used a radar gun professor? How does it work smart guy? You send out energy in whatever wavelength the device uses, traveling at the speed of sound for sonar, speed of light for photonic energies, those wavelengths go out and if they hit anything of mass, those wavelengths bounce back and are picked up by your receiver🤫

    • @seansimms8503
      @seansimms8503 Před měsícem

      @@neb-taui-djeser1060 explain to me how your house phone works, aren't sound waves wavelengths manipulated into electronics energy and at the speed of light conducted through a landlines where's its converted back into soundwaves so the receiver can hear😂???yes, no..

  • @mryorkshire3623
    @mryorkshire3623 Před měsícem +2

    The distances we are talking about are mind blowing. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Our sun is approx 93 million miles away and light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to earth, so if the sun were to suddenly vanish, it would take 8 minutes for us on earth to realize.

  • @hadjiptstudios
    @hadjiptstudios Před měsícem

    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke

  • @stevedahlberg8680
    @stevedahlberg8680 Před měsícem +4

    It seems highly likely that the vast universe is teeming with life. The problem is is that the gulfs of impossibly distant space between all of it are so huge that we are all effectively isolated from each other on that scale.

    • @TheUnfulfilledOne
      @TheUnfulfilledOne Před měsícem +1

      Satellites are a hoax as well.The Earth is an Encapsulated World/Environment.The Celestial Bodies are All visibly and factually small and they orbit around inside The Earth.There is no room or place for any Satellites.Again there are many Land Towers,which use Electromagnetic Waves or Radio Frequency Waves to create,generate,copy,redirect and transport signals/vibrations All-across The World.Satellites are completely unnecessary.The Ruling Dark Powers use Balloons,Airships,Airplanes,Gliders,Helicopters,Rockets,Drones and Land Towers to survey,map out,record and/or broadcast Everything.It is much more easier and far more efficient to use Balloons,Airships,Airplanes,Gliders,Helicopters,Rockets,Drones and Land Towers to survey,map out,record and/or broadcast Everything instead of Satellites as Balloons,Airships,Airplanes,Gliders,Helicopters,Rockets,Drones and Land Towers are much more closer to The Ground and The Earth and thus:the connection itself is far more closer,faster and clearer.To My understanding creating,building and launching Hundreds,Thousands or more Satellites into Outer Space is incredibly foolish,dangerous and life-threatening.If they ever fall down from the sky,they would be like falling missiles to people.People would be like walking targets.If Satellites truly existed,they would be extremely unwise and unsafe.If Satellites are real they would eventually become too overcrowded up there.Overcrowded Satellites would make Outer Space Travel extremely impractical,uncomfortable,risky,dangerous,fatal and lethal.A Cosmic Wall of floating Satellites would create a Prison World with a Cosmic Minefield - A Barricade of Satellites.People would effectively be trapped on their Own World unable to escape.Sooner or later those same Satellites will fall down if they don't have constant energy/power.If Satellites truly existed,Cosmic Space Travel as We know it would be Impossible or Suicidal.Satellites are a hoax designed in order to convince The Public that Outer Space is real.Satellites don't exist!
      Gravity is not real either.Just think about it.Water cannot be bent.Water is always perfectly level.It does not curve.Water is always Flat on the surface and it can Never be otherwise under any circumstance.If Gravity truly existed and was a fully functioning Force it would be severely limiting,restraining and restricting.According to My knowledge and intuition if Gravity was real it would function like a "Super-glue/Mega-glue Force" perpetually holding Everyone and Everything glued to the ground like Granite.There would be no jumping off the ground,no jumping Creatures,no flying Creatures,no flying Insects,no flying Birds,no Air Travel,no Balloons,no Airships,no Airplanes,no Gliders,no Helicopters,no Rockets,no Drones,no Space Travel,no Satellites and no Spaceships.The sheer "Pressing Power" of Gravity would prohibit,force and ground Everyone and Everything to the ground Forever.Nothing and Nobody would ever be able to leave the ground or to get off the ground Ever.Everyone and Everything in existence would only be able to move Horizontally.Vertical Travel would be Impossible and extremely painful,because of "The Enormous Pressing Force" from Gravity.Everyone and Everything would be Eternally weighted down by Gravity.There would be no escape.Gravity is a false theory designed in order to convince The Public that Outer Space is real.Gravity doesn't exist!
      Outer Space doesn't exist.Earth is the only World there is.There are no other Physical Cosmic
      Worlds out there and there is no Infinite Cosmic Spatial Vacuum Void.Outer Space has "3 Enormous Problems":Problem 1 - Survivability - Cosmic Space is completely and inherently uninhabitable,
      inhospitable and unliveable.This doesn't seem/feel right.If Outer Space truly existed
      it should therefore be completely and inherently habitable,hospitable and liveable.If Outer Space was real it would be 100% welcoming of All-potential Beings,Creatures and Life-forms.This means that Outer Space must be "Breathable",because otherwise Everyone and Everything would immediately and perpetually suffocate and no Life-forms would ever emerge or survive in such a lethal Cosmic Universe.Problem 2 - Cosmic Travel - All-vehicles must push "Something" in order to move and go "Somewhere".In Earth's Atmosphere Automobiles push "Air" to move,Airplanes also push "Air" to move and Cruise Ships push "Water" to move,but Outer Space has no Atmosphere.You cannot travel to/in Outer Space,because The Vacuum of Space neutralizes All-pushing power/travel power.This means that Space Travel is impossible,that No One has ever left The Earth,that No One has ever traveled to Space and that every single Space Mission from the beginning to today is a lie.If Outer Space truly existed it would need to have an "Atmosphere" in order for Outer Space Travel to be possible.Problem 3 - Vast Separation - Celestial Space is just far too tremendously vast as a territory.All-Life-forms are separated,because of the "Humongous Distance" between them.This is not convenient.If Outer Space was real it wouldn't be so gargantuan,because it has to be much smaller and more "Tightly-Knit",so that All-potential Life-forms can locate and
      discover each other.Outer Space is a lie designed in order to convince The Public that Extraterrestrial Beings exist.The total "Inhospitableness" and "Unfeasibility" of Outer Space proves that Outer Space cannot exist,because Outer Space doesn't exist!

    • @controlman7490
      @controlman7490 Před měsícem

      We also don't know how common or rare life is and even more specifically how common or rare complex lifeforms like us exist. For all we know, humans are among a very rare group of beings in the universe that are both complex and highly intelligent while the majority of other lifeforms could be microorganisms or lifeforms similar to elephants and horses, but not as intelligent as us. We just don't know.

    • @Ranganation
      @Ranganation Před měsícem

      @@controlman7490 Or other life forms are far more advanced than us by thousands of years and have in fact visited Earth...

  • @alexg4462
    @alexg4462 Před měsícem +4

    You've looked at how big things are.. now look at how small things can be. It's just as mind boggling.

  • @shadowstrider42
    @shadowstrider42 Před měsícem +1

    One of my favorite quotes from watchmen is when doctor manhattan says "I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they can hardly be said to have occurred at all." That's humanity right there, compared to the totality of existence.

  • @chriswhamilton
    @chriswhamilton Před 21 dnem

    Even more mind blowing is this may be just one universe in a multiverse.

  • @kinjiru731
    @kinjiru731 Před měsícem +2

    The size of the universe to me all but proves that alien life exists out there, but it also all but excludes any possibility they've ever visited Earth because of the distances involved to travel to Earth.

  • @ronlowney4700
    @ronlowney4700 Před měsícem +9

    🌬 Dust in the Wind, All You Are is Dust in the Wind!

    • @Whateva67
      @Whateva67 Před měsícem +1

      Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore 🌪️

    • @robbob5302
      @robbob5302 Před měsícem +2

      Like grains of sand through the hourglass, so flow The Days of Our Lives!

  • @FiendFyreNyx
    @FiendFyreNyx Před měsícem

    I really think you should watch the entire Carl Sagan speech called "Pale Blue Dot." The RLL video is great, but it misses a lot of what was said in Carl Sagan's speech that, in my opinion, is more humbling. The best way to explain how they measure distance in space is by using light.The longer light travels, the more the waves stretch out. This is called "redshifting," and you can see it in both the Hubble Deep Field photo as well as the JWST Deep Field photo. But they also use other methods besides that to determine distances for both objects within our own galaxy, and other galaxies.

  • @GregoryChew0921
    @GregoryChew0921 Před měsícem

    You can see distant objects because they give off light which took over a hundred million years of traveling to reach our eyes. Those planets and other objects may very have exploded, but the light from the explosion hasn’t reached us yet.

  • @513morris
    @513morris Před měsícem +4

    They use telescopes, people.

    • @gawdlike4075
      @gawdlike4075 Před měsícem

      If you think this video is even halfway entirely accurate you’re a fool most of this is just speculation based on our galaxy and even then none of it can truly be proven beyond a certain extent

  • @doplinger1
    @doplinger1 Před měsícem +4

    While this is all truly mind-blowing, I think the one section where it showed how far our communications have travelled since the very first signal. I do believe that there is life of other planets but I don’t think we will ever find it.

  • @claregeyer832
    @claregeyer832 Před měsícem

    "That is absolutely bonkers"... Touché Sam.
    My thoughts exactly 😁

  • @Dirtcake71
    @Dirtcake71 Před měsícem

    What has always blown my mind is the advances in technology in such a short amount of time. It's hard to comprehend that no one thought about the concept of a combustible engine 5,000 years ago. I use 1900 as the foundation when technology rapidly advanced to where we are now. Of course, that also could be why we're still here. If nuclear weapons were developed 5,000 years ago, would we even exist today?

  • @metalmark1214
    @metalmark1214 Před měsícem +7

    We are what I like to say "We are not even a pimple on a flea's ass compared to the rest of the universe."

  • @Capcomski
    @Capcomski Před měsícem +2

    On the topic of the universe, and part of it was used in the video, Carl sagan - pale blue dot is well worth a watch

  • @HotRodimus-sg2su
    @HotRodimus-sg2su Před měsícem

    Gotta remember... Voyagers were sent out in the 60s or 70s and our technology has jumped significantly since then, especially with photography.

  • @JuandeFucaU
    @JuandeFucaU Před měsícem +2

    "how do we know....."
    learning and observing helps.

  • @RushfanUK
    @RushfanUK Před měsícem

    There is a point where the numbers get so big that we can't comprehend the size, huge is just too small a word for it.

  • @JonsTunes
    @JonsTunes Před 6 dny

    The lady who developed the voyager photo thought the earth was literally a speck of dust and tried brushing it off. 😅

  • @crystasorrow9593
    @crystasorrow9593 Před 26 dny

    I always think a fun but enigmatic thought is, that there's possibly beings somewhere out there that can see earth just as we humans can see distant objects millions of years in the past...imagine if they could see earth about 70 million years ago when dinosaurs were here and humans don't exist yet. In reality, everything in space that we have photos of is basically a look into the past like that.

  • @truthfindeer7104
    @truthfindeer7104 Před 23 dny

    There is a video called "Journey to the edge of the observation universe", mind blowing video which gives complete perspective.
    I'm sure you guys and the viewers would love it.

  • @cookiemonster2299
    @cookiemonster2299 Před měsícem

    Pale blue dot video is always worth a watch.

  • @chappy48
    @chappy48 Před měsícem

    They have done sky surveys with telescopes, especially space telescopes and then they can calculate the distance each galaxy is from us given it's brightness and redshift, allowing us to make a rough map of the entire visible universe.

  • @toolmanick
    @toolmanick Před měsícem

    Even our own sun light we see everyday is about 8 mins old when it reaches our eyes...

  • @eriksand9262
    @eriksand9262 Před 29 dny

    There could be millions of intelligent life out in the universe. But since the universe is so huge we may never come in contact with each other, ever.

  • @firepowerjohan
    @firepowerjohan Před 8 hodinami

    An interesting thought is, if the Universe is just a random incidence then it would be totally ridiculous to think inteligent life only exists on our planet, and that non intelligent life only exist in planets close to us (since there may have been exchanges).
    That said, and since we still have not even seen any signs of aliens, the probability for the Universe having a creator increases largely.

  • @subnoizesoldier2
    @subnoizesoldier2 Před měsícem +1

    That photo let you know how small you really are. I think about this a lot. 5:07

  • @oliverfoldager291
    @oliverfoldager291 Před měsícem

    There is a video like this one that looks at how the future of the universe will unfold and how it will end. Its really cool and its called ‘Timelapse of the future, a journey to the end of time’.

  • @liquidpza
    @liquidpza Před 23 hodinami

    Obviously life exists elsewhere, but space is BIG big.

  • @happypup70
    @happypup70 Před měsícem

    Hubble space Telescope is how we figured this out.
    And it is all about taking pictures of light that we don't see.

  • @abundantabsurdity7085
    @abundantabsurdity7085 Před měsícem +1

    @10:29: WE CAN SEE IT! that's how we know it's there. We can literally look out and see all this stuff we will never be able to touch. Like a poor kid window shopping before christmas.
    The truly odd part of this is that the universe is the universe no matter which way we look. There is no such thing as a front or back of the universe. No edge. And no center. We can look back but the idea of looking forward is nonsensical.

  • @Jolly-Green-Steve
    @Jolly-Green-Steve Před měsícem +1

    15:30 Aliens must exist from a pure probability stand point but the universe is so vast and all the civilizations are so far apart with no idea where to look they will never find each other.... or will they?

  • @donaldduck2139
    @donaldduck2139 Před 4 dny

    Im right into this...always loved this topic

  • @kennethfinnegan2978
    @kennethfinnegan2978 Před měsícem

    Using the Doppler effect, we know how fast the stars are moving away from each other. This tells us that the universe is expanding. We can calculate how old the universe is and we can calculate how big it is in the observable universe only. We don’t know what’s beyond that.

  • @stevegoldy2196
    @stevegoldy2196 Před měsícem +1

    I absolutely loved your reaction, i enjoyed this one so much! You asked all the right questions and i agree that the video is so well put together and so mind blowing.

  • @jonhoge153
    @jonhoge153 Před měsícem

    With powerful telescopes we can see the faint light from those distant stars and make a map. Not because they can see far, but because they can pick up very faint light that has already travelled the vast distances required.

  • @mathieubouchard5117
    @mathieubouchard5117 Před 9 dny

    Careful observation, logical deduction, the sharing of ideas and.................... peer review.

  • @scottrackley4457
    @scottrackley4457 Před 21 dnem

    On the pale blue dot photo, those "sunbeams" are actually the gaps in the rings of Saturn. Voyager 1 turned back as it completed the flyby of Saturn and snapped that picture before leaving the solar system. Also got a nifty 3 miles per second gravity assist.

  • @TheAlbertaChannel
    @TheAlbertaChannel Před měsícem

    I’m the grand scheme of things, our individual problems are nothing compared to the universe. However since we can not comprehend the sheer scale of it, our individual problems will always be greater then the universe.

  • @robertrushing9990
    @robertrushing9990 Před měsícem

    With all of the observatories around the world scanning the skies with computers. The information compiled together shows an enormous universe.

  • @liquidpza
    @liquidpza Před 23 hodinami

    Our animal kingdom seems to fall somewhere in the middle insofar as scale, where the smallest things and the largest things appear to be similar multiples in either direction.

  • @danwatson171
    @danwatson171 Před měsícem

    10:26 imagine a snapshot, analysing every bit of light that is currently striking earth from their sources no matter how far away. The distant universe displays its existence through our local space-time, but is spatially correct given the temporal lag through distance.

  • @GregoryChew0921
    @GregoryChew0921 Před měsícem

    Here’s a good way to picture it. A photon of light that is traveling at the speed of light, can circle the earth 8 times in one second. Now imagine that same photon traveling in one direction for 93 billion years. The distance that photon can cover is way beyond what we can comprehend. And that is the size of the observable universe. So traveling to another solar system without wormhole tech is not happening.

  • @richardcarbery7035
    @richardcarbery7035 Před měsícem

    we've taken endless "photos" on earth and above earth at patches in the sky that because of gravitations lensing, show us what exists beyond our own system. Best way to wrap your mind around it, is studying red and blue shifting. Light tells you not only what matter exists but what that matter is made up from.

  • @GregoryChew0921
    @GregoryChew0921 Před měsícem

    We know how things work on a local level, taking quantum mechanics out for a moment because that changes everything. But we always get the size and age of things wrong. They always seem to be larger and older than we thought possible.

  • @larrybremer4930
    @larrybremer4930 Před měsícem

    Astronaut Michael Collins took a photo on Apollo 11 with the Lunar Module and Earth in frame. It's the opposite of a selfie, an "everyone elsei", because every person alive is in the photo except the photographer who took the picture.

  • @notmyrealname1730
    @notmyrealname1730 Před měsícem

    The universe being that big makes me feel justified in driving 150 yards to church on Sunday.
    "What's the big deal? It's not like I'm using as much fossil fuel to drive to the next galaxy."

  • @peircedan
    @peircedan Před měsícem

    Also, putting things in perspective:
    It takes the earth one year to orbit the sun.
    It takes the sun about 250 million years to orbit the galaxy. For perspective the first dinosaurs were arising about 250 million years ago.
    The solar system has made about 18 cycles around the galaxy since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. Well so I have read.
    The universe is vast but most of the observable universe is completely inaccessible apart from light and cosmic rays that came from it.
    The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the milky way but it will take another 4.5 billion years to arrive.

  • @mamasinger49
    @mamasinger49 Před měsícem

    Incredible, and humanity is a tiny speck in time of the tiny speck of Earth.

  • @IvorPresents
    @IvorPresents Před měsícem

    Humans measure distance by their foot. There truly is no limit in either direction.

  • @Short_Round1999
    @Short_Round1999 Před měsícem

    So, by using out satellite telescopes we have in orbit, they pick and track a single point of light. Then, by using whatever computer programs NASA has they can tell how far it is and plot it on a 3D map taking its distance and position is based on the Earth. They can also analyze the light composition and tell if it’s a star(and what type), if it’s a galaxy, nebula, black hole, anything really. So, as far as mapping, imagine the inside surface of a dome, that’s the sky as we see it; take the x and y coordinate of a spot of light and plot it, then using the distance(measured by analyzing the light from the object) they create the 3D maps they use in the video

  • @johndeeregreen4592
    @johndeeregreen4592 Před měsícem

    Land-based telescopes have been the major tool in discovering what exist in the universe. Much of this only came about in the early 20th century by Edwin Hubble. Before then, they though the galaxies they were viewing in their telescopes were nebula within our own galaxy. Edwin Hubble devised a method of measuring a specific type of variable star in the Andromeda galaxy. This method resulted in showing the Andromeda galaxy was actually 2.2-million light years away, and not within our galaxy. With galaxies further away, they measure the doppler effect, where an object moving away will take the visible light and shift it furth toward the red part of the spectrum. Even with an amateur telescope in a dark backyard, people can view galaxies over 100-million light years away. So, yes, we have the equipment that created this knowledge of the universe and help map it.

  • @steveames5797
    @steveames5797 Před měsícem

    Universe mapping is done by detecting the light that reaches earth. Not the other way around. Because the universe is so old light has had time to reach us from incredibly long distances.

  • @howell90002003
    @howell90002003 Před 18 dny

    The visible universes light is what has made it back to earth based on the time the speed of light takes to make it to earth

  • @Rikko5500
    @Rikko5500 Před měsícem

    The difference between 1 Million and 1 Billion:
    Take 1 million dollars and spend a 1000 dollars a day will take 3.5 years to spend it all, a billion dollars will take over 2000 years to spend.

  • @chrishoopengarner2940
    @chrishoopengarner2940 Před měsícem

    The state of West Virginia uses the worlds largest Radio Telescope currently ! It’s sits in Green Bank WV , part of the national No Radio Frequency zone ! The skies are insanely dark for where it’s sits on the eastern side of the United States, the area ranks as a Bortle 2 “ zoning for light pollution “ the lower the number the darker the skies.

  • @dakrisis
    @dakrisis Před měsícem

    All we know about the observable universe is done with huge arrays of telescopes and large scopes in space (Hubble, JWST). There's a huge difference between what we can see with our eyes and with those specialised telescope systems. We don't send probes out or use any sort of radar systems. As soon as you're talking about lightyears, those kinds of methods go right out the window. We observe the universe by capturing light, but the farther out the objects are the older the light we see from it is.

  • @MrBoombast64
    @MrBoombast64 Před měsícem

    This video humbles you, if youre on the right mind. Mindboggeling.