That would suck

Yeah, that would be typical.

More like 5 billion years, plenty time, relax.

Good thinking bro 😂. That would suck

It wouldn't realy matter around the time of "galactic equinox". Because then the axis of rotation would roughly make a 90 degree angle with the galactic plane (ignoring the tilt that is "vertical" to the plane as it would be irrelevant). As a consequnce one would have about half a year of the nucleus, and half a year of the outer rim (except at the poles, people there would get the "inbetweens"). And I say "roughly" because of the Earth's precession and the other quirky movement. And if Becky is super unlucky then the western tip of the Eurasian plate would migrate to the North pole during the galactic equinox and continue moving towards the Americas. Then it's another hundred million years of waiting. Bummer... I hope I got the explanation through. It's difficult without the visuals.

Oh yeah? We in the north are closer to Andromeda Galaxy (i think...?). You will never beat us in a race there!

the truth of this claim DEPENDS on the 'season'.

please no

@@miwoj oh yeah? We're closer to the small and large magellanic clouds. TAKE THAT

@@miwoj we can see Andromeda but you can never see small or large megellanic cloud nebula. We in the southern hemisphere have the Best view of Jupiter, Saturn, the milk way, Orion & Scopius constellations , Sirius, Canopus & Alpha Centuri, the three brightest stars in the night skies. You can never beat us

@RDE Lutherie , that was simply a very short simile so I didn't prattle on for to long. I'm a frequent user of links and pictures, but there is a very definite difference in watching an event on a computer screen and witnessing or living through the real thing. The experience of a live rock festival is quite different to watching KZfaq clips, thunderously so, both of which I do. What this clip has given me is a logical and explainable reason why there is a literal carpet of stars seen from the African bush [not farms, but out there where you carry your own water, at least 100km away from even the nearest road] - without fail, anyone I've take out from cities even from SA has had their breath taken away, its really funny to watch them. You are not going to get that from even a hi-spec movie theater. To describe that to someone without sounding like a "I-know-it-all-I'm-a-hotshot-seen-everything" is quite a task. Now at least I have a reason why the African night sky is so majestically different to the view from an English farm. Note: I'm sure South America, Australia, and New Zealand are similar. I've just never lived there so cannot in truth comment.

@@damien6685 the huge difference is probably more to blame on light polution. The sky is actually different but you can see the milky way very clear in the northern hemisphere if you find the right spot.

@@ryanvess6162 "if you find the right spot." Years ago I had to stop in the middle of nowhere and wait for my car to cool down. Besides being in the middle of nowhere (Nevada, U.S.A.) it was also the middle of the night. I was blown away by the view of the Milky Way. While we can get amazing views of the stars in the norther hemisphere, I've heard from multiple people (including Dr. Becky) the southern hemisphere's sky is much more dramatic. Thanks for sharing your experience with us Damien Lagan. It really makes me want to travel to the good viewing spot down south sometime.

The most awesome place to see the clear night sky in Southern Africa is up in the Drakensberg mountains. The Sky looks like some one has taken a bag of sugar and thrown it onto a freshly black painted ceiling.

RDE Lutherie I’m gonna disagree with regards to “the better the chocolate the less sugar there is”. I’ve tasted pure unadulterated chocolate and I can personally attest that without any sugar (by extension of that logic, the best chocolate there could be) chocolate is so overpoweringly bitter as to be downright awful. As with all things, it is much more about moderation than either extreme! By the OP’s point stands, it is very difficult to describe anything to another person if you have no common point of reference to help further that description. It’s like describing color to someone who has been 100% blind (no vision whatsoever) from birth, they don’t even have a concept of what light is, much less the effects that different wavelengths of light, or color, create and the emotions they further. We can communicate some aspects to them, but so much is simply beyond description. That’s part of the reason why many who were born entirely blind, or even regain sight after many years, or deaf tend to cry upon first exposure to such sights or sounds as the experience is entirely overwhelming to them since they have either never experienced the phenomena or have not done so in many years.

I envy the SH skies for all those reasons, being here in the States. Tho, it would take some getting used to seeing the moon and constellations upside down with respect to here.

Alright, you don't have to rub it in!

@@ruthmckay9086 If I were to rub it in, I would certainly have given Omega Centauri some prominence. It is far and away the most spectacular globular cluster in the sky. Be truly grateful for your view of the Andromeda Galaxy. A sight that I've only seen a few times.

@@peterskye7825 Problem is, Andromeda just looks like another star, or at best a tiny grey smudge, even at no light pollution. The entire extent of the galaxy, which is said to span a huge 10 times the diameter of the full moon, is unfortunately too dim to be visible with the naked eye.

@@peterskye7825 Compare that to the Milky Way, entirely visible with the naked eye. I've seen it a few times here in the northern hemisphere, considering how visible it was I'll imagine down south it'll be so bright it casts shadows, albeit not as colorful as in the photographs.

I never knew that either. My mind is blown as well

I didn't know the exact angle, but it makes sense since the galaxy's center cuts across our sky at a far steeper angle than the planets and sun do (at least from Illinois).

@@Kharnellius The Illinois angle is based on a regional concession made by the Night Sky Secretariat at the treaty of Rockford in 1804. Kidding of course - as you correctly assume the planetary / galactic offset angle doesn't vary with latitude whereas both their apparent elevations do.

Simple solution. Move to Australia the English are welcome.

@@leighmoom5277 - hehe, yes she should move to Brisbane.

At the risk of taking away your grand plan to catch this view in a little less than 100K years, wouldn't Precession as well as Plate Tectonics impact your viewing-area by then?

There was a headline about a rather new super massive blackhole, not sure if you have covered it or not, News articles lack great science reporting. If you have just point to that video. Thanks. Love your end of video humorous bits.

Anton Petrov reports about Polish astronomers' paper on the shape of the Milky Way -- it's not a real plane. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oK2VZ6qXtJ2qc2Q.html

You have got to look out across a glassy dead calm shore up into a clear sky, a crescent moon hung low above the city limit lights on the horizon, far away, and clearly see the inky Coal Sack contrast itself against space, to the naked eye appears the diffuse whiteness of the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds. Gape at the transformed sky, stars swollen in their natural size, above still waters beneath a night sky.

You have got to look out across a glassy dead calm shore up into a clear sky, a crescent moon hung low above the city limit lights on the horizon, far away, and make out the inky Coal Sack darkness contrast itself against space. To the naked eye much smaller appears the diffuse whiteness of the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds. Gape at the transformed sky, stars swollen in their natural size, above still waters beneath a night sky.

LOLL

Waiting 100,000 years Beats dealing with the crowds, traffic, and security checks at the airport.

100,000,000 years

Arrgghh Watch to the end of the video, will ya?

​@Prince Bumpkin​, And you could do so even if you walked.

Sometimes even the sun is obscured!

Houston is the definition of sprawl. I was there in 97 and it was bad then. I can only imagine what ya'll have built now.

Spot on 😉

If you wait about 5 billion years our two galaxies will collide offering a great view.

@@michaelproctor8100 I actually think Andromeda is a reflexion of our own galaxy, by a fucking huge mirror-like thing out there

@@rafaelzengo5534 Haven't heard that one before. Interesting.

To my knowledge, Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't claim to be an astronomer. He's an astrophysicist. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/naphpduBxtW7iqs.html

I don't much care for him. He comes off as a bit too condescending and puffed up for my tastes.

Brian M. Ross especially as he’s sometimes such an arse about other topics.

Im cool with this i just recently got into watching things with the series the universe i always knew who neil degrass tyson was and one his quotes goes something along the lines of we live in an age where more people know serial killer names then scientist and i heard that quote a long time ago................that quote actually started making me take notice of peoples names when they do things..............i dont like how serial killers inately get movies after them right but scientist get documentares were starting to push away from that thou and youtube allows everyone to have a platform its awesome....................michu kaku was another of my favorites cause he also likes to ponderize sci fi and everything science fiction tends to be what encourages new generations or science itself i feel there should be more emphazies on the news about things like this i grew up in cali right high speed chases north hollywood shoot out tanks guy cutting off an over pass with a big ass sign saying hmos are in it for the money pop shooting at everyone with a rifle and eventually blows his head off like yeah its news yeah it gets views and ratings.......................but i also saw all this during kids programing and i mean dont get me wrong i feel that should be on the news like the kill dozer thing but if we have more of an emphazise on good news thou it might stop to encourage it honestly im glad i grew up with that and watched it and knew about it early on i already had that pretty much ingrained in my head at an early age with my neighbor but some generations of people look at it in the wrong way i feel youtube is helping those that want to learn and are interested in things do more thou.......................im glad youtubes taking off and im glad 5g and elon musk new satelights are going up in space and more people are gonna be connected then ever befor this is how we advanced a collective think tank now if we can just stray away from the racial or hate or trolls and fuckery ohhhh what a world it would be.......................

Sorry i love Neil also!

Looking for a comment like this

Aussie here, we do mate we really do.

If you have no specific interest in astronomy, you wouldn't have known this.

This comment deserves accolades 🤣

A hoax

@@Rpesca76 You can hoax an entire hemisphere? Now that is clever!

Its like a dome

@@flatearth5821 And? What does something being like something else have to do with this. Thank god that flat earth is dying out now. The madness is over.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rsipasZ5mNHQZoE.html

18 'months'? It takes one full orbital completion around its point of gravitation (i.e., the galactic core) before the Sun can lay claim to its first birthday. It still has quite a ways to go for that special day.

@@jaybingham3711 No, Egg was right. It takes about 250 million years to go around the galaxy and the sun is about 4.6 billion years old. 4.6 billion divided by 250 million gives you 18.4 revolutions around the galaxy since the sun was born making the sun about 18.4 galactic years old.

Great, it's ok to call the Sun hot without being creepy.

@@dsa3df3 4.6 billion divided by 250 million is 18.4, and 0.4 times 250 million is 100 million. If you called the sun hot more than 100 million years ago you're being creepy.

Moving to New Zealand, that sounds like a very high level of commitment... Maybe, once the inevitable WW3 starts, I will have to look into this matter, since New Zealand is on no map, it can't be nuked.

@William White Why would you say that? Have you ever been to New Zealand?

@William White yeah sure one of the naturally most stunning places on earth with some of the best climate there is ... sounds hella boring to live in a place with great nature and outdoors activities.

@William White ah ok now I get it youre one of those people :D

I'd gladly move to N.Z. Not only does it have the best view of the Southern Hemisphere night sky, it also has a good temperate climate and doesn't get too hot.

😂 😢

LOL

Andreas Aristokrates The problem is, that you will totally forget about it, and only remember it 350 million years from now. Ops, I missed it, maybe next time...

You're a jerk, Dent. - Wowbagger

Oh, trust me. Once you've been floating in empty space for a 100 billion years, you'll wish you weren't immortal.

@Prince Bumpkin obviously meat isn't quite cutting it, although I'd love a biological solution for immortality, I fully expect that this fake immortality will rely on merging the brain with a tech brain. No copy magic, some brain plasticity magic instead, slowly shifting from the dying body into the machine. Honestly, I just want to know how it ends and just sleeping until "then", as if the end was discrete, feels like straight suicide. I want to see how it all plays out, us, ai, aliens, science, I want to know the point of stuck. Maybe then logarithmic backoff sleeping would be appropriate. I can be reasonably hopefull, that my curiosity would always keep me from falling asleep forever, unless I loose all humanity and apply "the only winning move is not to play", at which point I would consider it death anyway. The kind when people pull the plug.

Yes, "they" have. Just maybe not to you.

97,000 seconds make more sense.

Hello Wonderful Person!! Love the way he explain the universe.

Too bad a female scientist has to sneeze cutely in order to get subscribed to. Appreciate the excellent content for fck sake!!

I disliked because it shoulda been cut out😒

@@rolandmdill :D I appreciate the content, I watched most of her videos but wasn't subbed before. Doesn't matter much, YT seems to "shadow sub" channels you like to watch.

​@@zka77 This is not about how you got to watch the video in the first place. It is about how female scientists have to fight constantly in order to get the male audience to focus attention to their work. Would you also compliment male scientists like Mike Merrifield or Ed Copeland on their cuteness?

Southern "surface." ;-)

Yea but they have an inferiority complex, and the core sits higher in their sky so they like to say the view is objectively more magnificent. The only advantage is for high res astronomy calculations. To the human eye, neither hemisphere has a "better view".

You need to get away from any lights. I suggest an outback trip. I've driven inland from Cairns to Sydney in 3 days so you dont have to go far.

Creepy.... Be realistic

Good for you. And your English writing is fine, ( compared to some others I've seen ).

I had one of those moments on a school camping trip. It looked unreal, like in a book.