How Big Is Our Galaxy?

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How big is our galaxy? This question invites us on a captivating exploration of scale, distance, and the vast stretches of the cosmos that compose the Milky Way. From the familiar craters of the Moon to the distant, swirling arms of our galaxy, we are about to uncover the immensity of space that surrounds us.
Our journey takes us from our own backyard, the solar system, where planets and moons provide a stepping stone to the broader universe. We delve into the essence of distance, measuring the void not just in kilometers or light-years, but in the time it takes light to dance across the cosmos.
As we reach beyond the solar system, past the outer planets and the Kuiper Belt, we find ourselves at the threshold of interstellar space. Here, the scale of our galaxy unfolds, revealing a vast network of stars, nebulae, and dark matter, interconnected in a grand cosmic ballet.
The Milky Way, with its hundred billion stars, becomes a gateway to understanding not just the size of our galaxy, but also our place within this immense universe. Through this video, the distances that seemed so vast are brought into perspective, offering a glimpse into the sheer expanse of our galactic home.
Prepare to be transported on a journey that stretches the limits of imagination, where the enormity of the Milky Way is not just understood but felt. This is not just a voyage through space; it's an expedition into the heart of our galaxy.
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@EvoBioChemical Ай бұрын

What an endlessly mystifying situation we've been born into

@MM-xp8vs 26 күн бұрын

The distance is insane and scary to think how small our planet is, and yet we worry about every small thing in our day-to-day life

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 20 күн бұрын

Instead of worrying about what our life does to the planet and its inhabitants. Even the smallest things.

@manoz6194 19 күн бұрын

that's due to terrible governments and media

@Andreas1986xyz 17 күн бұрын

Makes sense to worry about the things that impact our daily lifes. See nothing odd with that.

@manoz6194 17 күн бұрын

@@Andreas1986xyz people worry about the affect but not the cause

@GA-qw2oy 18 күн бұрын

👍🏽Thank you for using miles and kilometers. It’s was very considerate of you.

@FENERORDU 13 күн бұрын

do you know what for us german is really confusing? the term billion. in germany and in continental europe we use the term billion for one thousand million (the number that americans calls trillion. trillion in usa, uk = billion in germany and europe.) i dont have problems of understanding, when you use billion with miles. but when you say 4,5 billion km, i have to guess, whether you are using the us, uk term or the continental europe term. really confusing :-))

@kd6420 12 күн бұрын

In the US, - 1,000,000 million - 1,000,000,000 billion - 1,000,000,000,000 trillion

@FENERORDU 12 күн бұрын

@@kd6420 In Europe (without UK :-)), - 1,000,000 million - 1,000,000,000 milliarde - 1,000,000,000,000 billion - 1,000,000,000,000,000 billiarde - 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 trillion we use the so called long scale. us and uk are using the short scale.

@Nickbaldeagle02 10 күн бұрын

It's was?

@kamielbuize4048 Күн бұрын

@@FENERORDU luckely not in cm or mm

@kevanhubbard9673 Ай бұрын

Unimaginably vast but even the galaxy is nothing compared with the Universe itself.

@adamhughes4442 Ай бұрын

You think!!!

@Holyspace305 Ай бұрын

@adamhughes4442 still won't change the fact penaldog has 0 wc ko ga

@matthewchicago5288 27 күн бұрын

Yep. Our galaxy is not even a speck of dust in the universe.

@OtterPup_ 23 күн бұрын

But a speck

@HopBoy 20 күн бұрын

How

@aexetan2769 Ай бұрын

4:25 If we were to take an airplane flight to Neptune in 1544, with passengers like Michelangelo Buonarroti on board (born in 1475, an Italian Renaissance polymath renowned for works such as the Statue of David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling), we would still require approximately 10 years from today to reach our destination.

@Space_Library 22 күн бұрын

Mind officially blown! This video brilliantly illustrates the mind-boggling distances within our galaxy and beyond. The analogy of compressing the Milky Way to the size of Earth really puts things into perspective. Such a humbling reminder of our place in the universe!

@jumboJetPilot 19 күн бұрын

If you shrank the Milky Way down to the size of North America then our entire solar system would fit on your fingertip.

@1stevil1 Ай бұрын

It’s interesting to think that if Betelgeuse was to go super nova today, it would have actually happened in the mid 1300’s.

@Holyspace305 Ай бұрын

Still won't change the fact that penaldog had 0 wc ko ga

@ianalexander1866 18 күн бұрын

What does that even mean? 🤔🤔

@jordanastro4694 17 күн бұрын

⁠@@ianalexander1866Betelgeuse is around 700 light years away, so it takes light from Betelgeuse 700 years to reach us on Earth.

@ianalexander1866 17 күн бұрын

@@jordanastro4694 , sorry I was talking about @holyspace305

@ianalexander1866 17 күн бұрын

@@Holyspace305 what does that even mean m

@BennyB5555 Ай бұрын

Only 16 views so far and counting! Love these videos!

@mechartistry Ай бұрын

😅😢

@minimatterspodcast Ай бұрын

644 now

@thatomofolo452 Ай бұрын

😮

@srikkanthank Ай бұрын

7238 now,, we are getting closer to mars in scale i guess,,

@Holyspace305 Ай бұрын

@@srikkanthankstill won't change the fact that penaldog has 0 wc ko ga

@castleanthrax1833 Ай бұрын

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid Obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had Quite enough... Just remember that you're standing On a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second So it's reckoned The sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at four hundred thousand miles an hour In the galaxy we call the Milky Way Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light years side to side It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We go 'round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, thats the speed of light, you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is 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 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth. The Galaxy Song. Monty Python.

@user-rz8su6dk4e Ай бұрын

It's weird because when you see other galaxies in images all the stars seem like they are so cluttered when they are actually light years apart.

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 20 күн бұрын

The effect of 2D mapping 3D objects. And actually 4D; everything in motion and with these distances, time is significant.

@dinkmartini3236 17 күн бұрын

"How Big Is Our Galaxy?" If you're goin' across it you might want to pack a couple sandwiches.

@TheDarkSnaffle Ай бұрын

Beautifully spoken. Thank you.

@roxter299roxter7 15 күн бұрын

The human brain cannot comprehend the vastness of space.

@CreationWorld86 10 күн бұрын

Right!

@granite6196 5 күн бұрын

what a fantastic thought exercise that was. fantastic video!! cant wait to watch them all!

@lduranceau8046 4 күн бұрын

Incredible. I sometimes try to imagine moving at the speed of light, traveling 100,000 years from one point on the outer edge of the Mily way to a point on the opposite side. I give up trying to imagine this in a matter of minutes.

@scottguillette 24 күн бұрын

Absolutely wonderful video, just Perfectly done and well enjoyed.

@ScienceTime24 21 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

@alienkumar484 Ай бұрын

Hope we can travel one day so far

@taffbanjo 25 күн бұрын

Terrific video - gives an idea of the enormous distances involved!

@leondarnell1 19 күн бұрын

I LOVE THIS SH*T...However, these videos make my head spin...the vastness of space is incredible, to say the least.

@ledaros6348 Ай бұрын

Absolute insanity to think we’re in this thing. What the heck is going on lol. In the end can only accept it for what it is and go about my daily life but man…

@larryslemp9698 Ай бұрын

And then try and consider something as small as a Planck length!! Totally insanity!!

@logicalrationalfishing7481 20 күн бұрын

Makes you feel small. Also makes you wonder what exactly is going on and what is the point when things are so vast. It has to be simpler or WAY more complex than we could ever imagine. Also I think black holes are formations of light particles in other universes.

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 19 күн бұрын

I think BlackHoles are BigBangs of other universes. No, there's no universe inside them. Seek information. The more I go down that rabbit hole, I see them as a gate. Matter can't be denser than neutron stars. Yet there they are. 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

@CozmicCuriosity Ай бұрын

Can suggest me where to find these amazing voice for videos❤❤ literally nailed it in this video🎉🎉

@Weslosfinest 11 күн бұрын

Unbelievable to fathom these lengths and what an awesome video!

@xarzu 13 күн бұрын

I love science because science is never rude. Science never insults us. Science is only the study of what is. It does not push an agenda. The intent of science is not to descredit you or hurt your feelings. The fact that so many people have no idea of what science has learned tells me more about us than you can imagine.

@almanuel6140 17 күн бұрын

when i watch videos like this i am reminded how many uncountable planets humans will never get to explore, these planets will be born, travel their orbits for eons and pass as their star dies...so much left undiscovered.

@marinmitu995 18 күн бұрын

0:54 Is the trajectory (direction of rotation) of the moon correct?

@lonniethomas4343 14 күн бұрын

Great narration 👍

@BanterMaestro2-bw9vr 3 күн бұрын

Depends on what parts you include. If you include our galaxy's halo, it extends halfway to Andromeda whose own halo btw is currently colliding with ours.

@colinmccarthy7921 21 күн бұрын

It is hard to believe the size of our Galaxy,when we look at the stars in the night sky.

@nutier 13 күн бұрын

Wonderful video ! I too , I want to know about the habitable's planets existing in the galaxy . How many years that , our sun can tourn around the galaxy ?

@AradaMarketing Ай бұрын

Love From Africa

@Semirotta Ай бұрын

If only more people would understand how miniscule we are in the scale of things in this massive universe, Im sure there would be a lot less hatred against each other and more working together to improve things. Unfortunately we have these religious a-holes ruining it all for the rest of us.

@matthewchicago5288 27 күн бұрын

Most definitely.

@ssekajjaandrewevans3120 20 күн бұрын

Dude, do whatever you want but never ridicule God..

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 19 күн бұрын

Who ridiculed God?!? Religion is source of all evil; the very first being separation from God. Give the priest your money and he will speak to God for you.

@tomf4547 4 күн бұрын

Makes my head want to explode trying to comprehend all this.

@harvey8695 3 күн бұрын

There’s belief that our universe is just one of many universes.

@dogwithwigwamz.7320 10 күн бұрын

If we were to put it on a scale where 1mm represents 100, 000,000 miles then our Day-Star ( The Sun ) would be a little under 1mm away from the Earth. The MilkyWay Galaxy would span a distance equal ( on that scale ) to the one which separates the city of London from the city of Chicago. Every milimeter ( in real space between London and Chicago ) representing a distance of 100 million miles.

@jamesalcon3891 Ай бұрын

Milky way, 100,000 ligthyears equal's 946 quadrillion kilometers close to 1quintillion km. impressive distance amazing...

@johnklsc2233 Ай бұрын

And they say there is no other life

@davidkennedy8929 Ай бұрын

Who’s they? Most people likely think that with all the planets, stars, galaxies in the universe the likelihood of life is pretty high!

@Holyspace305 Ай бұрын

@@davidkennedy8929still won't change the fact that pristiano pendudog has 0 wc ko ga

@davidkennedy8929 Ай бұрын

@@Holyspace305 ????

@johnklsc2233 19 күн бұрын

@@davidkennedy8929 most people

@eazythedon54st 17 күн бұрын

The universe is teaming with life my friend it's almost everywhere even in our solar system.............they said they found life in the clouds of Venus

@pauleypavillion6088 2 күн бұрын

I hope my next life is exploring for earth like worlds in our galaxy; there are billions of earth like worlds to explore in just our galaxy alone with 500-700 billion stars our galaxy is made up of.

@CarlosFlores-gm7dv 9 күн бұрын

It's so big, there's no need to worry about for the time being.

@sonartech7721 17 күн бұрын

I live for videos like these. Space is just…………..FUN.

@Nickbaldeagle02 10 күн бұрын

The problem with the speed of light is it's really slow. Like snail pace slow.

@shirazkhan817 Ай бұрын

Why your most videos less than 11 minutes. Please make it longer in the future.

@dennissmith7214 14 күн бұрын

Makes me sad to know we will never ever know or be able to see even a fraction of the universe!! 😞😕👈🏽

@elumalai-01 20 күн бұрын

i dont know why but whenever i think of universe i get depressed and feel lonely for few days

@AmericanMuscle69 19 күн бұрын

Not me. I feel gifted and blessed. Just think! We are the only living things that we know of in this universe. Our earth 🌎. We are special and should never feel depressed for being alive and getting to experience everything life offers.

@predatorgaming6281 Ай бұрын

Everyone is talking about how huge is the universe but no one is talking about how all the things in the universe are made up of electron, protons, neutrons, quarks. Dont you think guys as universe is infinite, there might be infinite things inside a electron, we are just not capable to reach there... It's just my overthinking, what are your thoughts about it?

@lbaker3602001 22 күн бұрын

It's only as big as a candy bar.

@srikkanthank Ай бұрын

Question, at 4.3 billion km neptune the farthest planet is rotating the Sun.. It takes 4 hours for even the sun light to reach Neptune.. So how neptune is still held in the orbit? What prevents it from moving away? Is it the sun that makes it rotate around or is it the Neptune on its own rotating in this orbit without any hold from sun? If Sun is holding Neptune in its orbit, what force from the sun, keeps Neptune around?

@ScienceTime24 Ай бұрын

Neptune remains in orbit due to the gravitational force exerted by the Sun, which is strong enough to influence Neptune despite the vast distance. This gravitational pull is what keeps Neptune rotating around the Sun, preventing it from drifting away.

@anthonymirande4030 2 күн бұрын

They say there are more stars in the known universe than grains of sand from "every "beach on earth and every star has at least 2 planets

@user-iq6cc3df3l 16 күн бұрын

100K light years I believe. If you could travel instantaneously one-half the Milky Way from Earth and look back with a really huge telescope - not possible most likely - you would see Neanderthals walking around. (I don’t know offhand how many kilometers a light year is but it must be huge.)

@trenken 19 күн бұрын

Relativity. To US these are vast distances. In the grand scheme of things relative to some else, perhaps something beyond the known universe, its actually very small. Just think of atoms in our bodies. Relative to us, they are very small. We are their universe. You could view the planets and stars as atoms in the universe. And the universe could be something so tiny in a larger unknown entity. But these are questions i dont believe our species will ever be able to answer. The answers are forever out of our reach, speeding away from us faster than light as the universe expands. Expands into what? The forever unknown.

@The-General36 17 күн бұрын

It depends entirely on who is measuring it. If we were twice as big , the galaxy would be half the size and vice versa. Size is not an absolute

@JafirAnsari-gh7zc 4 күн бұрын

Love from India ❤❤❤❤🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

@anorkhil7158 Ай бұрын

Super big!

@johnnymfbravo7163 45 минут бұрын

The universe is the biggest thing in the world.

@maximiliantiberiusvondavos3415 Ай бұрын

Bigger than you could possibly imagine.

@jahnotreal Ай бұрын

Great video. The only thing that’s slightly misleading is that Mars is usually about 12-20 light minutes away rather than 3 minutes.

@JohnnyAngel8 Ай бұрын

It varies from 3 minutes/13 seconds to 22 minutes/16 seconds.

@ScienceTime24 Ай бұрын

The video highlights Mars at its closest approach to Earth, roughly 3 light minutes, not the average distance of 12 light minutes.

@Derpy1969 20 күн бұрын

When you calculated those plane flying distances, did you take into account the fact that the plane has to fly in either an arc to reach Neptune where it will be when the plane finally arrives or some crazy straight line that meets Neptune at the shortest distance?

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 20 күн бұрын

These orbital curves are used because we don't have the propellant to realy fly a spaceship. We push them (uphill) for 10min and then they roll for several years. An airplane only works under constant propulsion. I therefor assume he used straight lines, from one place to another. Also, the constant speed was mentioned. A space probe constantly looses speed. The exception to this are ION drives. But they are still very weak. 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

@macbeavers6938 Күн бұрын

One Light Year is approximately 6,000,000,000,000 miles!

@commentarytalk1446 19 күн бұрын

I thought the consideration of how many stars and thence possible planets that may contain life being a high number of such perhaps suggesting life might be arising in many parts of The Milky Way to say nothing of any other Galaxy, was an apt consideration: We may not be able to apprehend the distances with our minds but the possibility of life flourishing and growing due to the sheer size is an alternative of interest we should consider a lot more closely: It might suggest we pull our socks up on Planet Earth, and consider the value of life on Earth a lot more seriously... It would have been nice to point out a few more features of the Milky Way eg 3D, Arms and other features with sizes.

@scottymoondogjakubin4766 Ай бұрын

Sad we know more about a million other galaxies than our own because we will never see it from the outside ! But ya its freaking huge !

@hakimghadiali8600 17 күн бұрын

We could also see Petrol etc the culprits

@JR-vo5zy 13 күн бұрын

So how long would it take to swim that far? I prefer swimming over walking.

@BharathBharath-mq3zx 27 күн бұрын

Can any tell how many galaxy and how many planets are there in the universe?

@ScienceTime24 21 күн бұрын

The observable universe is estimated to contain 2 trillion galaxies, with an average of billions to trillions of stars each, many hosting multiple planets.

@AmericanMuscle69 19 күн бұрын

@ScienceTime24 How the hell did space get so massive? It just shows how special life truly is. We here in earth are so lucky.

@sherif.kenawy Ай бұрын

فيديو رائع

@StockGenius152 Ай бұрын

The only thing confusing about these distances is the switching between mediums

@live_long_and_prosper 19 күн бұрын

Look who forgot Uranus.

@HungNguyen-yg3eq 6 күн бұрын

Chỉ có thiền định 'kinh vô ngã tướng mới thoát khỏi thiên hà thôi' còn tàu vũ trụ tên lửa thì chưa ra khỏi hệ mặt trời nữa

@user-zl9sh9mz6h 15 күн бұрын

The galaxy is so big that it takes 70 years at high warp just to get from the Federation to Kazon space.

@TheSwanlake2009 9 күн бұрын

If you go buy the constant I think our Galaxy is small because everything in our Solar System is small we're not in the center of the universe

@JakeMcClake2 Ай бұрын

And we believe that the number of Galaxies within the visible universe is more like 3 trillion. Additionally, each galaxy probably has about 40 or 50 satellite galaxies. And we believe a large number of galaxies exist that are not visible from where we are, because the light from those galaxies has not gotten here, yet. WE may eventually figure out how to trave much faster than we can now, but, Traveling faster than a bullet, Voyager will reach the closest star in 70,000 years. It would take Voyager 17,,500,000,000,years to cross the Galaxy. To get to the next spiral galaxy Andromeda it will take Voyager over 4,375,000,000,000,000 years. And Voyager traveling faster than a bullet, can be hit by something as small as a bullet, which can destroy it. If we were somehow able to speed up Voyager,, the faster Voyager travels, the smaller an item that can destroy it.

@Anthony-gq7dk 12 күн бұрын

two trillion galaxies ! Wow , I thought it was or used to be around 100 billion , how many stars do the estimate there are ?

@stevenbrooks3573 17 күн бұрын

And that's just the universe we are in. Our universe is probably just part of the local group of trillions of universes.

@josephwright6154 5 күн бұрын

IC 1101 galaxy is approximately 6 million light years end to end

@SuperZymantas Ай бұрын

i woul dlove if you add 9 potential plannet..

@williamcorpuz9591 9 күн бұрын

The Earth is just a Grain of Sand in the Infinite Universe.

@leecowell8165 18 күн бұрын

BIG! 75000 light years across what's THAT tell you?

@j-dubb614 Ай бұрын

The average life expectancy of is likely only due to high infant mortality, that number likely isn't very accurate.

@mamefan Ай бұрын

490 years?!

@desmondcassity8909 14 күн бұрын

Soon as I heard the voice I knew I was watching til the end

@nigelsmith721 8 күн бұрын

One hundred AND forty seven million…. AND!!!!!!

@Mack-the-Knight 19 күн бұрын

If you think you have a grasp of how big the Milky Way is, you’re still way short of that ideal.

@goingoutotheparty1 Ай бұрын

And I thought it was a long way to the shop

@Acegalaxi Ай бұрын

Especially if you want a sausage roll!

@smokejaguar67 18 күн бұрын

Unless my math went wrong along the way Our galaxy is 662.256 quadrillion kilometers across

@zethalal007 3 күн бұрын

sab upar se nikal gya, ghost particle ki tarah

@thatomofolo452 Ай бұрын

Lindos Lindos Lindos ♥️♥️♥️💫

@Ledman301 19 күн бұрын

24 years life expectancy. He fudged the #s.

@madmickmad 18 күн бұрын

Now That's big! Makes my "third leg" look tiny in comparison to our galaxy.

@SajiSNairNair-tu9dk 2 күн бұрын

👉how is big your thinks 🤔

@thierryk5381 20 күн бұрын

For some reason, i dont believe we are in a spiral galaxy..no one has left ours to say how it looks like only imagination and theories...what if we are in a irregulare or a different type of galaxy? Space never stop to amaze me...also if looking through a microscope is looking back in time how do we know the things we are looking at still even exist cus their kight has taken so long to reach us?

@roidjunkycena3111 20 күн бұрын

We can observe the distance between stars, by observing their luminosity and apparent change in position as earth orbits the sun. This allows us to see which areas of the Milky Way which are more or less dense with stars, this shows that the stars are arranged in a series of dense regions which form the spiral arms of the Milky Way. The distances between the stars are so vast even a human born 100,000 years ago would see basically the same constellations as us today even though the stars have moved billions of miles. Such is the vastness of our galaxy. And you’re right! When we look at stars we’re looking at their past. At least some of the stars you see in the night sky are already dead and we don’t even know yet.

@JonBurrows90 Ай бұрын

Very.

@sureshkumarn8733 18 күн бұрын

It's beyond human comprehension....

@ninjaturtlemarkchulo7290 2 күн бұрын

So if the moon spins with earths magnetic field so we should have more eclipse than every 7 yrs i think we live on flat earth

@_BLACKSTAR_ 14 күн бұрын

"How Big Is Our Galaxy?" Real REAL big, like it would take a Toyota Prius and AT LEAST 2 full tanks of gas to cross it!!!

@bongomcgurk7363 15 күн бұрын

Nearly as big as Texas

@aracoixo3288 Ай бұрын

❤🎉😮 7:23

@user-wo6qn3vf9n 4 күн бұрын

Would rather have a MARS thanks.

@xarzu 13 күн бұрын

The 2 trillion gallaxies is only part of the universe that we can observe. If that skiny physicst that is on Rogan's podcast is telling the truth, this is an infinitisimal part of an even greater universe.

@ukdnbmarsh 19 күн бұрын

Airplane or Aeroplane that is the question

@teabaggins7091 19 күн бұрын

u can visualize the scale by understanding that earth is literally a microscopic sphere within the galaxy... containing nanoscopic creatures. how dare these insignificant creatures be so arrogant?