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Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by bystander » Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:01 pm

sameseason wrote:Where is the video? It's not on the site anymore. This is my favorite APOD. I show it to people frequently.
APOD Robot wrote:... Every spot in the above video is a galaxy containing billions of stars. ...
Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by sameseason » Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:29 pm

Where is the video? It's not on the site anymore. This is my favorite APOD. I show it to people frequently.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by neufer » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:52 pm

arbee63 wrote:
An amazing video that truly emphasizes both the vast scale of intergalactic space and just how many galaxies are out there...each with their billions of stars...
I know such a flight is not physically possible because of relativity and the fact that images of distant galaxies represent a different point in time, but how "fast" is the observer moving in the video? It must be many millions of light years per second?
Yes:

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by arbee63 » Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:27 pm

An amazing video that truly emphasizes both the vast scale of intergallactic space and just how many galaxies are out there...each with their billions of stars...
I know such a flight is not physually possible becasue of relativity and the fact that images of distant galaxies represent a different point in time, but how "fast" is the observer moving in the video? It must be many millions of light years per second?

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Marcus44 » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:11 pm

GerryP wrote:
shailesh wrote:I normally like and appreciate almost every photo/video posted in APOD (Thanks to everyone behind the scenes !), I eagerly check it out almost everyday (since last 1 year or so). As for today's (Aug 13th, 2012) video, to be honest, I didn't find this video much exciting at all. There's almost nothing in it except galaxies, galaxies and more galaxies (either individual or in clusters). Nothing else. Not sure if I'm missing some point.
I think that the point is that it is just galaxies. It gives just a small perception of how staggeringly huge the universe is. Just imagine that some of those little dots are larger than the Milky Way itself. The skill and technology to put a video like that together are also astounding. Isn't it great to be able to see something like that?
Exactly. In the first second i thought: geee... we are so trivial, unessential in this huge space. Only a deep, black silence and small blue spot of live... But second was: wow, it so big, so spraed, that there must be full of live there.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by GerryP » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:16 pm

shailesh wrote:I normally like and appreciate almost every photo/video posted in APOD (Thanks to everyone behind the scenes !), I eagerly check it out almost everyday (since last 1 year or so). As for today's (Aug 13th, 2012) video, to be honest, I didn't find this video much exciting at all. There's almost nothing in it except galaxies, galaxies and more galaxies (either individual or in clusters). Nothing else. Not sure if I'm missing some point.
I think that the point is that it is just galaxies. It gives just a small perception of how staggeringly huge the universe is. Just imagine that some of those little dots are larger than the Milky Way itself. The skill and technology to put a video like that together are also astounding. Isn't it great to be able to see something like that?

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by bystander » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:25 pm

Marcus44 wrote:Is the diameter of those galaxies right? I mean the proportions between size of them and distances... Galaxies appear so ...big here. :/
rstevenson wrote: I also asked on the SDSS-III blog and got this reply...
Yes, the galaxy sizes have been increased by a significant factor for visibility. They otherwise would be dots except for times when you were flying rather near a galaxy. (If I recall correctly, that factor is around 50x).

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Marcus44 » Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:29 pm

Is the diameter of those galaxies right? I mean the proportions between size of them and distances... Galaxies appear so ...big here. :/

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by neufer » Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:00 pm

neufer wrote:
BMAONE23 wrote:
I think that if we ever were able to travel at that speed, the apparent motions of the galaxies (galactic rotation) would become apparent as we would encounter the light faster in the direction we were traveling, they would appear to speed up in their rotations. Then, as we passed the galaxies, they would appear to rotate in reverse.
You are half right.

Galaxies ahead of us will appear to run in a time frame speeded up a factor of ~2γ.
(Where the ultrarelativistic "warp factor" γ ~ 376 trillion.)

However, in order for one to observe time to appear to move backwards
one must catchup with and pass photons that have already passed us by.

This is not possible in a vacuum :!:

Rather, galaxies behind us will appear to run in a time frame slowed down a factor of ~2/γ.
Correction: galaxies behind us will appear to run in a time frame slowed down a factor of ~1/2γ

Yellow light from destination galaxies are received as ~ 1,750 TeV gamma rays
Yellow light from trailing galaxies are received as ~ 1 Hz radio waves.

Now that's real Doppler effect :!:

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Aodhan Warchilde » Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:41 am

When I was a child I tried to picture what it would be like to fly through the stars (what I could see of them.) Wonderful to have grown up and find that the reality is more magical than the imagination. I don't know how "real" it is, or if the photons "bunch up in front of you" -- but the video is fascinating!

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Cheap Frill » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:54 am

This video is a fake! You can see the guy's boots when he pans the camera past the Ophiuchus Supercluster. I'll bet they're not even real galaxies, just nebulae dressed up to look like galaxies!

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Denise » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:59 pm

Thanks APOD and Sloan Digital Survey for the astonishing video! I also greatly enjoyed seeing the other videos folks posted, fascinating discussion too.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by rstevenson » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:51 pm

neufer wrote:
rstevenson wrote: In this video, is the per-galaxy scale the same as the distance-between-galaxies scale?
It doesn't look right to me.
Previous representations are more like cartoons as compared with this careful representation.
Thanks for that Art-full opinion. I also asked on the SDSS-III blog and got this reply...
Yes, the galaxy sizes have been increased by a significant factor for visibility. They otherwise would be dots except for times when you were flying rather near a galaxy. (If I recall correctly, that factor is around 50x).
Rob

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by neufer » Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:06 pm

nz1m wrote:
This is a tremendous effort. Thank you. However, have you ever considered this: We all know the farther away we gaze the farther back in time we're looking. So, this map is really a very, very old map. Could we extrapolate "where the galaxies would be now"? Since we could never, ever, travel there, it may be moot. But "now" maps are indeed more accurate for the serious traveler!
The primary motion involved here is Hubble expansion. Either Hubble expansion has already been included or it amounts to basically a simple scaling factor such that the separation between galaxies is slightly more than shown (as a function of the galaxy sizes).

On the other hand, the individual separations between neighboring galaxies is mostly dominated by local motions such as that which will cause a (near?) collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy in ~4 billion years. Since the furthest galaxies depicted are about 1.25 billion years old there will, indeed, be some distortions in the more distant structures. However, since we have no way of knowing about any of the angular local motions taking place with even nearby galaxies (much less distant ones) only the radial distances could be corrected for in the manner you wish.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by nz1m » Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:13 pm

This is a tremendous effort. Thank you. However, have you ever considered this: We all know the farther away we gaze the farther back in time we're looking. So, this map is really a very, very old map. Could we extrapolate "where the galaxies would be now"? Since we could never, ever, travel there, it may be moot. But "now" maps are indeed more accurate for the serious traveler!

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Ann » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:31 am

Lordcat Darkstar wrote:seeing this video causes me to wonder. If everything in the visible universe originated from the big bang, than that means that there should be a center to the universe right? Would it be possible to maybe find hints or clues from this data that could point us in the direction of the center of the universe? Im sure we would need a lot more data and we would probably have to figure out where everything is now, but I think it would be interesting to be able to point at a part of the sky and say thats where it all began. :ssmile:
As Chris Peterson once pointed out, the only center of the universe is the precise moment of the Big Bang itself. This moment is the center of the universe because everything originated from it, but we can't see it, because it is located about 13.7 billion years ago.

So aren't there parts of the universe which are closer to the Big Bang than other parts? Sure, the distant galaxies that are spotted by our most powerful telescopes are closer to the Big Bang than we are, but only because we see them as they were in the past. "Now" these galaxies are as far away from the precise moment of the Big Bang as we are.

Isn't there a physical, three-dimensional part in our present-day universe which is closer to the Big Bang than other parts? Can't we point at a certain constellation or star in the sky and say that the Big Bang happened in this particular direction of the universe around us? No. Because the Big Bang wasn't a sort of "flame-thrower" that ejected its stuff into a pre-existing space. The entire universe, space itself, was created in the Big Bang, so no part of space is "closer" to the Big Bang than any other part of it. As a matter of fact the entire universe is the Big Bang, when it is 13.7 billion years old and has cooled and expanded. That's a hard concept to wrap one's mind around, but it is nevertheless true.

See http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=25300.

Ann

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Lordcat Darkstar » Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:18 am

seeing this video causes me to wonder. If everything in the visible universe originated from the big bang, than that means that there should be a center to the universe right? Would it be possible to maybe find hints or clues from this data that could point us in the direction of the center of the universe? Im sure we would need a lot more data and we would probably have to figure out where everything is now, but I think it would be interesting to be able to point at a part of the sky and say thats where it all began. :ssmile:

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by neufer » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:44 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:
I think that if we ever were able to travel at that speed, the apparent motions of the galaxies (galactic rotation) would become apparent as we would encounter the light faster in the direction we were traveling, they would appear to speed up in their rotations. Then, as we passed the galaxies, they would appear to rotate in reverse.
You are half right.

Galaxies ahead of us will appear to run in a time frame speeded up a factor of ~2γ.
(Where the ultrarelativistic "warp factor" γ ~ 376 trillion.)

However, in order for one to observe time to appear to move backwards
one must catchup with and pass photons that have already passed us by.

This is not possible in a vacuum :!:

Rather, galaxies behind us will appear to run in a time frame slowed up a factor of ~2/γ.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Moonlady » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:28 pm

and this amazing flight was very very quiet to my earthlings ears :D

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Chris Peterson » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:09 pm

marlan wrote:I don't understand the purpose of this amazing video, showing the Univers which doesn't exist as such NOW. We have no idea what is the current position and look of a galaxy distant a hundred millions of light-years. The images we get are the ones of the past. So ?
The purpose is just to provide a sense of the scale of the Universe.

If you could fly through the Universe in reality, everything would look about the same. That's because all galaxies are about the same age. No place in the Universe looks substantially different than any other place. It only appears that way to us, observing from a single location, and therefore seeing more distant stuff as it appeared when younger.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by marlan » Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:43 pm

I don't understand the purpose of this amazing video, showing the Univers which doesn't exist as such NOW. We have no idea what is the current position and look of a galaxy distant a hundred millions of light-years. The images we get are the ones of the past. So ?

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Anthony Barreiro » Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:34 pm

APOD Robot wrote: ... . The movie starts by flying right through a large nearby cluster of galaxies ... .
Would that be the Virgo cluster?

This is a lovely video. It puts all my little problems and disappointments into perspective.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by BMAONE23 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:09 pm

Great piece of work!!!
I think that if we ever were able to travel at that speed, the apparent motions of the galaxies (galactic rotation) would become apparent as we would encounter the light faster in the direction we were traveling, they would appear to speed up in their rotations. Then, as we passed the galaxies, they would appear to rotate in reverse.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Markus Schwarz » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:58 pm

jayvibe wrote:Would it be possable to fly after we leave the milky way?IT seems that space filled with a different kind of matter would pervent our traveling through it.Does space time still come into play after we leave the milky way?IT could be like hitting a brick wall! Moveing through the universe could be impossable.
If you have a powerful enough engine, I see nothing that prevents you from leaving the Milky Way. Dark matter is still very dilute, compared to densities on Earth (the number I recall is something like 3 Dark Matter particles per glass of beer), and it only interacts via gravity, as far as we know. It's effect is that your engine would have to be much more powerful, since you would have to overcome not only the gravitational pull of all stars that you see, but of the Dark Matter as well.

Spacetime certainly exists beyond our Milky Way and there is no "barrier" you hear of in science fiction. In fact, we have good evidence that part of the cosmic rays hitting Earth all day do indeed originate from outside our own galaxy.

Re: APOD: A Flight Through the Universe (2012 Aug 13)

by Chris Peterson » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:55 pm

jayvibe wrote:Would it be possable to fly after we leave the milky way?IT seems that space filled with a different kind of matter would pervent our traveling through it.Does space time still come into play after we leave the milky way?IT could be like hitting a brick wall! Moveing through the universe could be impossable.
There is nothing to suggest spacetime is different outside of galaxies than inside (except that inside it is prevented from expanding because of the high gravitational field). Everything we observe tells us that physics is the same everywhere. Galaxies themselves are moving thought intergalactic space, after all!

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