3D model of M87

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  • Опубликовано: 12 апр 2023
  • This is a Hubble Space Telescope photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87. A grid is overlayed to trace out its three-dimensional shape. This was gleaned from meticulous observations made with the Hubble and Keck telescopes. Because the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to employ stereoscopic vision, they instead followed the motion of stars around the center of M87, like bees around a hive. This created a three-dimensional view of how stars are distributed within the galaxy.
    ANIMATION: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
    3D MODEL: Frank Summers (STScI)
    SCIENCE: Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)
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Комментарии • 49

  • @madrandomize5115
    @madrandomize5115 Год назад +23

    Well that was a bit anticlimactic

  • @Mrfailstandstil
    @Mrfailstandstil Год назад +5

    Hubble is like an old grandpa that still has some moves! lessgoo!

  • @d3vilfish80
    @d3vilfish80 Год назад +6

    Wow, did you reactivated a computer from the 80s for that 3d modell?

    • @Simp_Zone
      @Simp_Zone Год назад +4

      Nasa isn't getting the same budget they used to so they had to use an old amiga to render it.

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад

      I don't think so...

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад +2

    Fabulous!

  • @matgeezer2094
    @matgeezer2094 Год назад +3

    M87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy, I think, a really massive central supermassive black hole - something like 40 billion solar masses. But its noticeable cause of long linear feature - a very energetic emission, laser like. But I don't see it on this video.?? Its vaguely there, at the beginning. As somebody else said, anticlimactic

    • @stuartpaulandrews
      @stuartpaulandrews Год назад +1

      M87 is the cD galaxy of the Virgo cluster. The current estimate for the mass of its central black hole is 5.7 billion solar masses. By contrast the central black hole in our own galaxy weighs in at just 4.1 million solar masses.

    • @matgeezer2094
      @matgeezer2094 Год назад +1

      @@stuartpaulandrews ohh, that's quite a significant difference! Thanks for the reply

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад

      Yep.

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад

      It is not necessarily anticlimactic.

  • @JohnStopman
    @JohnStopman Год назад +1

    Wonderful! ❤

  • @thomasgoodwin2648
    @thomasgoodwin2648 Год назад +3

    What seems even more amazing to me is that 100 years we couldn't even agree how far away these faint smudges of light were.
    The view we have today would have given even the most enlightened of that era the urge to scream "WITCHCRAFT".

  • @AbdurRehman-jw9lc
    @AbdurRehman-jw9lc Год назад +2

    Is it the Black Hole?

    • @Marcell_Kovacs
      @Marcell_Kovacs Год назад +1

      No, ut's the whole galaxy around it.

    • @thomasgoodwin2648
      @thomasgoodwin2648 Год назад +1

      Technically yes, but it only occupies (Fermi guesstimate) the innermost 0.00001% of the image and is somewhat blocked by the overexposure of the foreground stars.
      (Apologies for being so pedantic, but I unfortunately I have this have this weird medical condition that occasionally overcomes my will and causes me to turn into a smartass😉)

    • @AngoNL035SD
      @AngoNL035SD Год назад +2

      It do have a huge one in the center!?!

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад

      No.

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад

      Yes, but this video is for the entire galaxy.

  • @Simp_Zone
    @Simp_Zone Год назад +3

    Careful or your 3d graphics team might get poached by Marvel!

  • @crispycritter7022
    @crispycritter7022 Год назад +2

    What?

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад +4

      Messier 87 is a giant elliptical galaxy in the direction of the constellation Virgo. It is located inside the Virgo cluster of galaxies. This galaxy is notable for being large, having a jet of matter spewing from the central black hole, whose image was the first of such an object.
      This is a wonderful 3d model of the galaxy. Before you think I am an astronomer, I am not one, I just read and study a whole lot.

    • @thomasgoodwin2648
      @thomasgoodwin2648 Год назад

      Who, why, where, and when. Keep at it! You're already a 5th of the way towards your Journalism merit badge.

    • @thomasgoodwin2648
      @thomasgoodwin2648 Год назад +1

      @@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx The only bit I would contest is that if you have ever gazed upon the heavens in wonder, and studied them in any way to know more, you ARE an astronomer. Science isn't an occupation, it's a lifestyle.

    • @crispycritter7022
      @crispycritter7022 Год назад

      @@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Thank you! You are my hero! 🦸‍♂️

    • @crispycritter7022
      @crispycritter7022 Год назад +1

      @@thomasgoodwin2648 you sure are committed at it boy. Don't tell everyone what I'm doing.

  • @TundeEszlari
    @TundeEszlari Год назад +1

    Nice video.

  • @nataliequintin9378
    @nataliequintin9378 Год назад

    'Promosm' 💔

  • @muckerwood
    @muckerwood Год назад +4

    Is this a late April fool's joke? As anyone with a brain could deduce without an "illustration", it's the same from any angle. 😂🤡

  • @terratec1001
    @terratec1001 Год назад +3

    It's just a smudge with a rotating grid on it. A complete waste of time.