Ive been waiting to get a telescope for at least 6 years now since I moved up here in shelburne. The amount of stars I see at night is crazy. Youve earned a Ontarioian sub lolol
Bat Man may they call this something else which is known as milky way galaxy to us. I m deeply interested in astronomy and everytime i watch such videos it gives me goosebumps and mist on my eyes thinking that how tiny we are in this whole cosmic arena, floating "on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"
Astronomy is so confusing, and interesting. It’s hard the believe that he’s looking 2 million years in the past. Let that sink in, he’s seeing light from before the first human, the Homo Habilis, was even alive. That’s just hard to believe.
@@curtisjackson7194 one light year is the distance a light can travel in one year. Sample is Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5M lightyears away, it takes 2.5M years for light to reach andromeda galaxy from earth. So when you look at Andromeda, you see it as it is 2.5M years ago 😁
yes and same for the moon its 1.6 light seconds away since its so close to us but still really far, you’re looking at the reflection of it from about 2 seconds ago. Mars is 14 light minutes away and etc, the farther it is the longer back in time you’re seeing it MIND BLWING STFF
I think that there should be a holiday in which every light city should be turned off, so that people could see the beauty of nature that hides itself behind the curtain of artificial light we produce
Those photons have been moving at 189,000 miles per second for 2,500,000 years just to make it on to your lens. Then they were recorded and recreated a month later and reached my eyes about 3 nanoseconds after being emitted from my screen. Light is cool
although I get the joke and it's funny but if someone was looking through a telescope at our galaxy from Andromeda they would be looking at millions of years into the past with how fast light travels.
just imagine that there is life in andromeda and people there are just like us maybe more advanced and they are always looking at us (Milky Way) asking themselves: “is there any life over there?”
Imagine people in Andromeda And looking to milky-way galaxy and seeing nothing because the light is 2.5 m million years old And thinking they are alone just like us
I am just getting into hands-on astronomy after decades of wishful thinking. I am also realizing it’s the imaging of objects that interests me the most. I am happy to have found your channel!
When you realize you’re looking at that massive galaxy through the stars of our galaxy and realize how far away it is and how huge it is, perspective starts to kick in. Insane
@@krishalxettri8796 Yes, since andromeda is on a collision course with the milky way, and it's currently at to 2.5 milliom years distance, we see it where it WAS 2.5 million years ago, 2.5 million years have to pass so we can see where andromeda is now
@@styled9876 i dont get it. Is what we see om the picture 2.5 million years old? Are you saying we are watching something which was there 2.5 million years ago? How is that possible? Ty in advance.
Absolutely mind-blowing. Words simply cannot describe how impressive scenes like these are. We often take for granted the world in which we live in but this puts everything into perspective. Stunning. Makes me want to buy a telescope.
@@Lavish_Clipz Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, humanity has existed for 200,000 years, even if they could see our planet clearly from that far away, they would've to wait for at least 2.3 million years to see the beginning our species
The music at the end is so fitting. You said it best..."It's real and it's out there". Its so cool to think that there are billions of others like Andromeda and the Milky Way. How this picture could fail to inspire awe in any human being is beyond my comprehension. The universe is simply amazing.. and we'll likely never understand its mysterious beauty.
"The memories you associate with the night sky last forever." So true. I was down in Guerrero, Mexico the first time when I was 10 and I saw the Milky Way galaxy with my own eyes for the first time. It was awe inspiring. I will never forget.
@@darthplagueis3488 That'd certainly be an interesting future, but I get the feeling that creating an interstellar empire is much, much, MUCH more difficult than we could ever possibly imagine. The universe almost seems "deliberately" set up to make things as isolated as possible, and to make travel between celestial bodies as technologically demanding and time-consuming as possible. I mean, just to get to our closest neighbour Mars takes 4 year... and once you start trying to incorporate other stars it just gets ridiculous; humans are far too short-lived to partake in such voyages. And then there's the notion of lightspeed travel (or faster), the various theoretical methods of which are always plagued by the same issues - they require a ludicrous amount of energy (more energy than is contained in the Sun), require extremely perdurable and resilient materials the like of which we haven't even begun to conceive of, ...or on the most rudimentary level, would simply be lethal to human beings - for starters, the insane g-forces that lightspeed would inflict upon any vessel would shred you in a matter of miliseconds (as they'd likely shred the vessel itself). Then there's the radiation - outside the Earth's magnetic field is one thing, but once you've left the protective shield that is the Sun's heliosphere you're exposed to the massive amounts of radiation coursing between stars, including high-energy gamma rays and x-rays; even a fleeting exposure to such an environment would be almost instantly fatal to any human. We don't yet have the materials to defend ourselves against such exposure; heavy radiation also damages electronic circuits and components. So we definitely have our work cut out for us. I think it's likely that we'll have colonised the Moon, Mars (+ its moons), and maybe the dwarf planet Ceres in the next 100 years, then possibly some of the moons of Jupiter - Ganymede, Europa and perhaps some of the smaller moons - as well as some moons of Saturn like Titan, Enceladus and Iapetus in the next 200-300 years... we might also have some floating mining facilities in the clouds of Venus (unless we can somehow substantially lower the atmospheric pressure globally, we'll never colonise the actual surface), and probably a whole bunch of mines on random asteroids throughout the belt, but outside of that I don't think we're gonna make much progress before we annihilate each other - or get annihilated. Honestly I think the only kind of "species" that could feasibly create an interstellar empire is artificial intelligence. The universe is massive enough that there probably are at least a **few** organic empires out there, but there's probably TONNES of machine empires, each derived from a now long-extinct organic civilisation... kinda crazy to think about, all these mechanical "descendents" of a species that went extinct a million years ago, still programmed with the behaviours and ideals of that species and effectively the last "survivors" of that species - if it weren't for them, there would be no evidence that their progenitors ever existed. Perhaps we'll suffer the same fate when our AIs surpass us. There'll be a whole society of machines that behave exactly like human beings, and that mimicry will be the only trace of us left! Anyway that's my story, wanna pass me the bowl?
This is the first video i watched from your channel and when you showed the andromeda galaxy in all its glory. I actually shed a tear because it was so beautiful.
"The memories you associate with the night sky last forever".. Absolutely mate! Night sky, the great universe void always amazes us throughout whole life
Killy19 Killy he is correct the light took millions of years to reach us (andromeda is 2.587 million light years away,it takes roughly 37,000 years travelling at 5miles a second to travel a light year do the maths that’s trillions of miles away) thus theoretically seeing it as it was wayyyyyyyyyy over 2 millions years ago
Killy19 Killy wdym? You’re the fool because when you look at a star or something that means that you’re looking in the past. When we see the sun. That’s not how it looks. That’s how it looked 8 minutes ago and when you see the moon that’s how it looked 1 second ago so if you saw the Andromeda galaxy then you would see 2.5M years into the past and if there is people on Andromeda and they use a telescope to look at the Milky Way. They would see 2.5M years into the past. If I texted someone that lives in the Andromeda Galaxy. It would take 2.5M years for the text to deliver to the other person
By the time I watch this, I'll be in the mountains getting ready to take my first ever shot of the milky way. Thanks for helping to inspire me to try a whole new form of photography. :3
That's so cool. I've been taking many shots of milky way through the last year and this year. If you want, we can share our shots in Discord. My tag is ParadoxSubject#6628
@@zkgg6163 we will find them in the far future if we won't die by an asteroid or somethin else before we find them there's surely more life cause there are more over billions earth like planets out there and there are over billions galaxies that also may have a lot of earth like planets that can contain life
11:39 The presentation from here onward is truly inspiring. The way the final edit image fades in with the music ques is done so well. And the slow spiral of the galaxy as the drums beat in the background. The song choice was absolutely perfect. It is truly amazing to know for certain this Galaxy is our galactic neighbor. Who knows how many lifeforms it holds and if they are staring back at our galaxy wondering the same thing. It is a shame we may never know in my lifetime. But the feeling of awe and wonder is it's own reward in a way.... The universe is remarkable.
@@TheBestOfSweden and we wouldn't be alive at that time....... or are we? vsauce here nyanyanya but I really hope I can experience that time maybe get reincarnated or something? like when I die I'll be someone else and foeget everything like I was never there lufe kinda feels a lil weird for me like whwn I have a chance to live again I'll be thinking if I ever lived before and this weird feeling of being A live like idk my munfd is messed up
@@mpred8606 sadly it won't halpen that way..... because our existence is not something grand as we think of it..... We were just very lucky that every thing happened with our solar system favoured our existence....we are not special we are just lucky.......we born we die..... nothing happens after that.....we have limited time to explore and after that blackout just like before we were born.....it would be like we never existed.......it is frightening but truth
Hey Trevor, In case you haven't noticed, this video just hit 1 million viewers. Congratulations and keep up the great work. You are now one of the great Canadians.
You don't have to go that far. Just head out of the spiral arm we are in - you wouldn't even have to be 50000 light years out to get a pretty sweet view. Even shorter distance would give an impression. Anyway, we are in the milky way - so we should feel privileged to be inside it
That must be so cool to watch from your scope. All the pictures of galaxies and planets I’ve seen have been via books and media. Watching them in real time must really do something to ones soul.
@@AV_204 I would love to know that too. In fact I'd love to have a cellphone camera photo taken through the eyepiece, just so I know what to expect from a telescope of that size.
Cell phone photos never look as good as what you can see through the eyepiece, so dont use that as a gauge of what to expect. Through my 8" in a dark area Andromeda is big and fuzzy but I can make out enough detail to be happy. Something like the Orion nebula shows way more detail and color. The Ring nebula shows well but lacks color.
i really love how you present every videos of yours, you can feel the love and passion toward the universe and its many wonders, keep up with the great work!
PULSAR theoretically speaking if you could some how get there and back in less than 2.5 million years it would be time travel. Traveling through higher dimensions (or wormholes) would make this theoretically possible... however that is yet to be known! Who knows maybe proof of higher dimensional travel will happen in our lifetime
Basically what happened. Is let's say you're in the year 0 you wouldn't be able to see andromeda. You would need to wait 2.5 million years to see it. Well now lets say you're in the year 2.5 million, you see what andromeda looked like in the year 0.
Twuben actually we would be able to see andromeda because when the big bang happened everything was closer and the universe hadn’t expanded that much so we would see it, but if we put your way then yes you are correct
PULSAR if we traveled faster than the speed of light to Andromeda, and looked back we would see our planet from the past because we essentially went faster than light. Now if we turned back and went faster again, essentially beating the light shining back at us, we would be able to “travel” back in time
Congrats!!! I plan on doing that this fall. I am Trying to decide whether to you my telescope/camera set-up Like Astrobackyard did or to just go with my DSLR and a lens.
@@fuiyoh8367 What Lens and exposure settings (Roughly) Did you use? Did you use a tracking mount or not? Thanks For your previous reply a week ago. I Want to at least start with a set up that seemed to work for you at least to some extent.
The reason why I have bought a telescope for astrophotography was this Video and the final result of the andromeda galaxy at the end of your Video. Thanks for the Inspiration! Greetings from Germany
Well... that could change in the far future, they won’t need a telescope to see the other galaxy because we have colonized it and assimilated any potential life form
Great image but first and foremost you should be thankful for having such a lovely and supporting wife coming along with you. For most of us this is a very lonesome hobby....
@If you laugh you sub! That's quite insensitive. If your wife supports your hobby then you stand to make de pounds you showed but if she's not, then it will be disagreements all day.
@@libraryquiet you must be soooo proud of yourself considering what you said was unoriginal as well. I just dont understand why people like yourself want to be dipshits. I guess like the vast mysterious the universe conceals, Ill never know.
@@juliomaldonado4028 I'm guessing that you like science and astronomy as much as I do. So I'm pretty sure that you've read many comments like Zerxxity's on other videos about the universe. Comments, in one form or another, pertaining to the possibility of life on other worlds. I have. I admit my reply to Mr. Zerxxity was sarcastic. It was to let him know that we didn't just fall off the truck. We're not like, "Oh man, I never thought of that, living things on other worlds! Oh wow. What a concept!" Come on Mr. Zerxxity, this is your moment and that's all you got!? Posting a comment that's been beaten to death. Sarcasm has it's merits. I don't know about you but I like creative, engaging, correspondence. In the end he was expressing his view like I was with my reply. So why does that make me a dipshit?
Dude, from way out in the Atlantic, at 30,000ft, with night vision goggles, you can see Andromeda sooo easily you dont even have to look for it! Its just like finding the moon, you just look at it/see it. And it's so impressive! And so much bigger than it looks through binos!
I took a pic of Andromeda with my LG V20 last weekend. 30 second exposure at ISO 100. I didn't have it on a star tracker so it looks like crap but it's there.
@@joeshmoe7967 I could try that. I think the noise can be a lot more prominent with a phone as opposed to a real camera. I do have a DSLR with adapter for my telescope so I can get decent pictures of some things with that.
@@mawage666 some cell phones have surprisingly decent sensors, but a dslr will be better. With out a tracker you need to keep exposures to just a few seconds, regardless of camera.. I have found 10 sec max at wide angle. 3 sec max at 300mm. That requires a lot of exposures to stack but it is worthwhile to start. You learn as you go. I just got the star adventurer tracker and it works very well and a huge improvement in my shots
Thanks. I paused at 12:09 and stared at it for a long time. I could see blue stars, white dwarf, yellow dwarfs, orange dwarfs and red dwarfs. Amazing! Living the dream of owning a sky telescopes through your videos!
Dude, fucking incredible!!, I know why your so into astronomy and deep sky capturing, its fascinating on so many levels, and you do a great job too, just Subbed to your Channel, and I’m already speechless! All the best and keep up the fine work mate, cheers from Sydney Australia.
Here's how I processed my photo of Andromeda Galaxy: astrobackyard.com/andromeda-galaxy-tutorial/ - You can download the data and try it yourself!
Fyi: it's best to capture a sequence of the core of the galaxy with a shorter exposure (subframes) so that you can reveal detail in the core...
Can i do it here in the philippines???can i see it???
Ive been waiting to get a telescope for at least 6 years now since I moved up here in shelburne. The amount of stars I see at night is crazy. Youve earned a Ontarioian sub lolol
You see ufos
@@rogueplanet13 Promise?
To think there might be someone in Andromeda with a telescope looking at our Milky Way 🌌
Bat Man may they call this something else which is known as milky way galaxy to us. I m deeply interested in astronomy and everytime i watch such videos it gives me goosebumps and mist on my eyes thinking that how tiny we are in this whole cosmic arena, floating "on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"
you mean "something*
@@dirtyactsatdonedirtprice4547 the other "people" would call us "something" too
@Gen Vuelham they do. 4 sure
they photograph this galaxy like they looking at our old galaxy.
because its milion light years far away.
Man if I would take a picture like that, I would probably start crying
Same
الله يهديك الى الطريق المستقيم
And they say guys don't cry. I would to, 😂 👌 its beautiful.
Same 😂
the most touching comment ever lol
Even though life is not always going well, things like this show me how beautiful life truly is
Same💛
The universe*
@@krepa599 shut up
Ορέστης Ρεπούλης your ruining the moment asshole
You meant the universe.
Astronomy is so confusing, and interesting. It’s hard the believe that he’s looking 2 million years in the past. Let that sink in, he’s seeing light from before the first human, the Homo Habilis, was even alive. That’s just hard to believe.
Im confused can you explain
@@curtisjackson7194 one light year is the distance a light can travel in one year. Sample is Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5M lightyears away, it takes 2.5M years for light to reach andromeda galaxy from earth. So when you look at Andromeda, you see it as it is 2.5M years ago 😁
yes and same for the moon its 1.6 light seconds away since its so close to us but still really far, you’re looking at the reflection of it from about 2 seconds ago. Mars is 14 light minutes away and etc, the farther it is the longer back in time you’re seeing it
MIND BLWING STFF
@@mikay_la well said!😎🤓
Christ this is huge and at the same time, it's so fragile and delicate to understand
this makes me want to cry because i know in this lifetime I will never get to explore space and see everything beyond out solar system
Same
I get u bro
We are energy so hopefully after we die we'll get see the beauty of the universe
@@alexandrueusebiu8634 is it wierd that i think the exact same
When we die..you never know what may happen.. maybe we can ascend to a higher conciousness
I think that there should be a holiday in which every light city should be turned off, so that people could see the beauty of nature that hides itself behind the curtain of artificial light we produce
Johnny Schneider I feel like I would get dizzy and feel very small, especially if I was on a hill.
google earth hour, im not sure if the world does it but Australia certainly does
yeah, and suck all the pollusions away from the air.
I always have this thought whenever I look at the night sky
It's called earth day, barely no one does it sadly 😢
Those photons have been moving at 189,000 miles per second for 2,500,000 years just to make it on to your lens. Then they were recorded and recreated a month later and reached my eyes about 3 nanoseconds after being emitted from my screen. Light is cool
That is a very interesting way to put it. We are looking at something over 2 million years ago. The night sky is like one big time machine screen.
2,537,000 light years away
@@Underwhelmed yeah so you see it that much in the past
WHY NO METRIC
Yes I agree. Then my screen lite up the room I am in, warming the walls, and actually heated the room a bit.
Some kid on a planet orbiting an average star in the Andromeda: "Mom, that man from the other galaxy is staring at me again!"
Stalking is a huge problem, hope he gets caught
although I get the joke and it's funny but if someone was looking through a telescope at our galaxy from Andromeda they would be looking at millions of years into the past with how fast light travels.
@@vivek-zo2yy its a joke you prob know that
@@Keenan716 you don't know them. Maybe they have some weird quantum telescope that sees 4 dimensionally or some crazy crap.
Very unlikely. Light takes time to travel, especially from galaxy to galaxy. @@KandiKlover
just imagine
that there is life in andromeda
and people there are just like us
maybe more advanced
and they are always looking at us (Milky Way)
asking themselves: “is there any life over there?”
Instead they will name it "■●•●•°■|\"
At least they will not see people when they look at earth. 2,5 million years ago there were no people yet to see :)
@@acommunist1607 what the.... How did u know??
Imagine people in Andromeda
And looking to milky-way galaxy and seeing nothing because the light is 2.5 m million years old
And thinking they are alone just like us
@@sparkydz6205 I get it now
10:48 Ok. Here's the Andromeda galaxy
@@Astronexian Okay. So is English also spoken on your planet?
@@Astronexian This is just so absurd lmao
@@Astronexian 😂
@@Astronexian what's the weed like over there
SuperninjaYTbro so you guys use the same curse words as us?
In two billion years, you won't need a telescope to see it.....just step outside.
roger sowers I’m gonna live until 2 billion and 13 years okd
Old*
@@timetraveler69yearsago3.....and I will be there to pay my respect....if it ain't raining!
You think earth will survive till then?😂
roger sowers you can see it now.. with your own eyes
I am just getting into hands-on astronomy after decades of wishful thinking. I am also realizing it’s the imaging of objects that interests me the most.
I am happy to have found your channel!
i was in the same position 2 years ago, this video is what made me get into astrophotography, yeah its pretty expensive but its WORTH EVERY PENNY
When you realize you’re looking at that massive galaxy through the stars of our galaxy and realize how far away it is and how huge it is, perspective starts to kick in. Insane
The perspective is scary but humbling
Idkhowtokms the universe is incredible
We arnt just looking at that galaxy either. It's madnessss
Can’t wait for the galactic empire we humans will create once we master space travel
Anti flat earth Anti vegan the human race will be reorganized into the first galactic empire!
Looking back 2 million years into the past
So that means Andromeda is more near than it seems?
@@krishalxettri8796 Yes, since andromeda is on a collision course with the milky way, and it's currently at to 2.5 milliom years distance, we see it where it WAS 2.5 million years ago, 2.5 million years have to pass so we can see where andromeda is now
Styled did we have such technology so long ago to know this ?
@@styled9876 i dont get it. Is what we see om the picture 2.5 million years old? Are you saying we are watching something which was there 2.5 million years ago? How is that possible? Ty in advance.
@@sicariushahni5366 yes the light from that univers traveled 2.5 million years to get to earth at the speed of light so thats real far.
This is my dream to see the Andromeda from my own eyes.
*slowly one step away*
@Krioque wait what
You can see Andromeda with 50€ binoculars...
Are you milky way your pic says so also Andromeda might be your half brother
@Krioque Was probably Jupiter or Venus
Absolutely mind-blowing. Words simply cannot describe how impressive scenes like these are. We often take for granted the world in which we live in but this puts everything into perspective. Stunning. Makes me want to buy a telescope.
Collecting photons that have been travelling through space for the last 2.5 million years!.....thats pretty cool
...a tell-tale of what occurred.
@Dean Shaw >>>
Photon from Earth's Sun: *_"AM I A JOKE TO YOU??!!"_*
😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
not whats happening brain zombie.
2.5 million year 😂😂 fools
From the reference frame of those photons they have not experienced any time at all!
Andromedians: Lets photograph milkyway tonight.
maybe they say "ahudu sepaa cpdkeğe aıa"
lmao
XD
What would the Andromedians call us?
Maybe they call our galaxy the Andromeda
I love that this comment section is shared with a bunch of people interested in space, that’s why I love the internet.
I’m only interested in the future coming colonization and assimilation of the entire universe
Born too late to explore the world.
Born too early to explore the universe.
Born just in time to experience a global pandemic
This comment is getting WAY TO OVERUSED
Trap Tracks this is literally the first time I see it
@@traptracks9111 yo momma was getting way to overused,
just like yo momma jokes
Sunny shah I was not trying to be rude I was just saying I have seen this comment in almost every space video
@@traptracks9111 you don't need to say sorry and be a simp, this is the internet, you shouldn't be sorry for shit
10:53 wow moment.
" _It is out there, it is real ! "
Great video.
All that tech. And I see a foot pump for the air mattress. Love it.
and the light collar for puppy!
Got to stay healthy 😂
just seeing the stars alone makes me cry, what more when i see andromeda?
@D S I live in a city. Sad I can't see Andromeda. Im 17. I will definitely visit an area to see Andromeda when I start grow. And also milky way
Now take in theres Trillions and TRILLIONS more just like this still.
Citizen on Andromeda looking at this photo: THAT'S OLD
Oh, I got the joke
In*^, but otherwise good joke.
Look at that dinosaur
Maybe the galaxies are destroyed till now who knows
@@vivek-zo2yy whatever, smartass
"The memories we associate with the night sky lasts forever"- so true
Still the best astrophotography channel by far. The final image of the Andromeda Galaxy is amazing.
How tf did u have some purple thingy beside ur name
@@reistcipher8484 He Is The member of this channel
Chuck at Chuck's Astrophotography does some pretty cool stuff as well. Check any of his solar pics.
Ok
4th word is hell long
Some homie in that galaxy must be taking our pictures too
yeah im thinking about that too
that's totally not true
For them, humanity doesn't exist, at least, not yet
Lamb Sauce it could you don’t know that
@@Lavish_Clipz
Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, humanity has existed for 200,000 years, even if they could see our planet clearly from that far away, they would've to wait for at least 2.3 million years to see the beginning our species
11:50 THE MUSIC GOES SO GOOD WITH IT
I liked your video two years ago, and I like your video once again. Still remembering your hard time. Wish you and your family all the best!
Dude that came out insane, thanks for always showing us the process, cheers broski!
Probably the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life
That's because you haven't met my wife.
The music at the end is so fitting. You said it best..."It's real and it's out there".
Its so cool to think that there are billions of others like Andromeda and the Milky Way. How this picture could fail to inspire awe in any human being is beyond my comprehension. The universe is simply amazing.. and we'll likely never understand its mysterious beauty.
There are trillions of known galaxies throughout the universe…
What is the name of the music track?
I hope one day I can afford a good telescope to get images like this. The universe is such an amazing and beautiful place
"The memories you associate with the night sky last forever." So true. I was down in Guerrero, Mexico the first time when I was 10 and I saw the Milky Way galaxy with my own eyes for the first time. It was awe inspiring. I will never forget.
08:55 I seriously got confused for a moment because of the strange light that lady looked like some Mexican... With a macho moustache.
Mexican still looking for Sombrero Galaxy
@klutzys -. and the music matched perfectly
same
369 HELL YEAH 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL
Loved it! Really getting into your channel!
Imagine someone at Andromeda watching us. He could see our whole history with a powerful telescope.
Imagine someone at Andromeda watching us. He could see our whole history with a powerful telescope.
@@diaryofmylife7299 stolen comment
@@user_71748 no. May be possible it is a coincidence.
My jaw dropped when you did the stretch thing and revealed the galaxy, incredible!!!
The andromeda galaxy is so breathtakingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing this... it’s hard to describe into words the universe and all it’s glory!
Once we secure an empire we will observe its beauty up close in personal when we colonize the planets
@@darthplagueis3488 That'd certainly be an interesting future, but I get the feeling that creating an interstellar empire is much, much, MUCH more difficult than we could ever possibly imagine. The universe almost seems "deliberately" set up to make things as isolated as possible, and to make travel between celestial bodies as technologically demanding and time-consuming as possible.
I mean, just to get to our closest neighbour Mars takes 4 year... and once you start trying to incorporate other stars it just gets ridiculous; humans are far too short-lived to partake in such voyages.
And then there's the notion of lightspeed travel (or faster), the various theoretical methods of which are always plagued by the same issues - they require a ludicrous amount of energy (more energy than is contained in the Sun), require extremely perdurable and resilient materials the like of which we haven't even begun to conceive of,
...or on the most rudimentary level, would simply be lethal to human beings - for starters, the insane g-forces that lightspeed would inflict upon any vessel would shred you in a matter of miliseconds (as they'd likely shred the vessel itself). Then there's the radiation - outside the Earth's magnetic field is one thing, but once you've left the protective shield that is the Sun's heliosphere you're exposed to the massive amounts of radiation coursing between stars, including high-energy gamma rays and x-rays; even a fleeting exposure to such an environment would be almost instantly fatal to any human. We don't yet have the materials to defend ourselves against such exposure; heavy radiation also damages electronic circuits and components.
So we definitely have our work cut out for us. I think it's likely that we'll have colonised the Moon, Mars (+ its moons), and maybe the dwarf planet Ceres in the next 100 years, then possibly some of the moons of Jupiter - Ganymede, Europa and perhaps some of the smaller moons - as well as some moons of Saturn like Titan, Enceladus and Iapetus in the next 200-300 years... we might also have some floating mining facilities in the clouds of Venus (unless we can somehow substantially lower the atmospheric pressure globally, we'll never colonise the actual surface), and probably a whole bunch of mines on random asteroids throughout the belt, but outside of that I don't think we're gonna make much progress before we annihilate each other - or get annihilated.
Honestly I think the only kind of "species" that could feasibly create an interstellar empire is artificial intelligence. The universe is massive enough that there probably are at least a **few** organic empires out there, but there's probably TONNES of machine empires, each derived from a now long-extinct organic civilisation... kinda crazy to think about, all these mechanical "descendents" of a species that went extinct a million years ago, still programmed with the behaviours and ideals of that species and effectively the last "survivors" of that species - if it weren't for them, there would be no evidence that their progenitors ever existed.
Perhaps we'll suffer the same fate when our AIs surpass us. There'll be a whole society of machines that behave exactly like human beings, and that mimicry will be the only trace of us left!
Anyway that's my story, wanna pass me the bowl?
What a great moment at 10:53
Thanks so much for uploading this video and sharing your passion and curiosity!
This is the first video i watched from your channel and when you showed the andromeda galaxy in all its glory. I actually shed a tear because it was so beautiful.
"The memories you associate with the night sky last forever"..
Absolutely mate!
Night sky, the great universe void always amazes us throughout whole life
Getting a little teary eyed over here lol. Truly breathtaking 💙
Amazing WE CAN SEE BACK IN TIME 2M YEARS !
So you think
Killy19 Killy he is correct the light took millions of years to reach us (andromeda is 2.587 million light years away,it takes roughly 37,000 years travelling at 5miles a second to travel a light year do the maths that’s trillions of miles away) thus theoretically seeing it as it was wayyyyyyyyyy over 2 millions years ago
Killy19 Killy wdym? You’re the fool because when you look at a star or something that means that you’re looking in the past. When we see the sun. That’s not how it looks. That’s how it looked 8 minutes ago and when you see the moon that’s how it looked 1 second ago so if you saw the Andromeda galaxy then you would see 2.5M years into the past and if there is people on Andromeda and they use a telescope to look at the Milky Way. They would see 2.5M years into the past. If I texted someone that lives in the Andromeda Galaxy. It would take 2.5M years for the text to deliver to the other person
@@okkkk111 no, it takes light from the moon 2.51 seconds to reach earth
Daniel Elder 1.25 actually
There is nothing more beautiful than this .
By the time I watch this, I'll be in the mountains getting ready to take my first ever shot of the milky way. Thanks for helping to inspire me to try a whole new form of photography. :3
Wow 🤩 I wish that even I got such a chance.
What mountains?
That's so cool. I've been taking many shots of milky way through the last year and this year. If you want, we can share our shots in Discord. My tag is ParadoxSubject#6628
@@stevewalter9998 I was at Mount Mitchell in Pisguh National Forest. :3
I wish you have/had clear skies bud :)
I didn't even need to take the picture and I felt it so hard I teared up. A picture of a galaxy has a thousand emotions.
"these images are happening right now"
Einstein: "well.... "
I love when someone who's good with cameras makes vlog/video, the quality is always on point
And you’re telling me we’re alone in Universe!...
Ah yes 9 year olds with big Hope's 😅🤣
žάςķчツgαмιиgッ Educate yourself. If you think we're the only ones you have no idea how big the universe is. You're just too ignorant to believe it
@@iconicblanco Think about it as a fact, what are you going to do?
Gijs you can’t be sure tho it’s like Schrödinger’s cat, you’re not sure if there are living beings other than our earth
@@zkgg6163 we will find them in the far future if we won't die by an asteroid or somethin else before we find them there's surely more life cause there are more over billions earth like planets out there and there are over billions galaxies that also may have a lot of earth like planets that can contain life
The reveal music at 10:52 gave me shivers! Awesome soundtrack!
11:39 The presentation from here onward is truly inspiring. The way the final edit image fades in with the music ques is done so well. And the slow spiral of the galaxy as the drums beat in the background. The song choice was absolutely perfect.
It is truly amazing to know for certain this Galaxy is our galactic neighbor. Who knows how many lifeforms it holds and if they are staring back at our galaxy wondering the same thing. It is a shame we may never know in my lifetime. But the feeling of awe and wonder is it's own reward in a way.... The universe is remarkable.
Imagine a world we’re we put our money into traveling the galaxy and not building nuclear weapons
❤️ that day will come. We will be an intergalactic civilization some day.
@@TheBestOfSweden and we wouldn't be alive at that time....... or are we? vsauce here nyanyanya
but I really hope I can experience that time maybe get reincarnated or something? like when I die I'll be someone else and foeget everything like I was never there lufe kinda feels a lil weird for me like whwn I have a chance to live again I'll be thinking if I ever lived before and this weird feeling of being A live like idk my munfd is messed up
TheBestOfSweden hopefully we do be an intergalactic civilization so we can make the galactic empire a real thing
@@mpred8606 sadly it won't halpen that way..... because our existence is not something grand as we think of it..... We were just very lucky that every thing happened with our solar system favoured our existence....we are not special we are just lucky.......we born we die..... nothing happens after that.....we have limited time to explore and after that blackout just like before we were born.....it would be like we never existed.......it is frightening but truth
sahil gaur u never died so how u know 😂sounds dumb
random guy: **takes picture of a galaxy light years away in a day**
nasa: *_am i a joke to you?_*
Nasa took a picture of a black hole 50 million light years away
@waffeltek actually it is 54m light-years to be exact
@@thesarcasticguy936 Exactly.
@Maximilianovania 40 billion?!!!!!!!!!!! omggg
@Maximilianovania its not even possible to imagine something like this
10:45
Youre welcome
Like if you want but dont like if you dont want to
Actually? You nead to skip 10 minutes of this video.
I would say you watch the whole video, and watch how it's done
Light coming from the past. Awesome!
Hey Trevor, In case you haven't noticed, this video just hit 1 million viewers. Congratulations and keep up the great work. You are now one of the great Canadians.
And people still believe the earth is flat 🤦♂️
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I have to be in andromeda galaxy to see the whole milky way galaxy....
Actually if you just flew into intergalactic space, you could see it fully
Super_Kittenzz is it cold when youre out of Milky Way galaxy just wandering
And see us 2.5m years ago
wait *what*
You don't have to go that far. Just head out of the spiral arm we are in - you wouldn't even have to be 50000 light years out to get a pretty sweet view. Even shorter distance would give an impression. Anyway, we are in the milky way - so we should feel privileged to be inside it
The fact that this content is free to watch... GOD I LOVE RUclips!
membership video's: let me introduce myself
That must be so cool to watch from your scope. All the pictures of galaxies and planets I’ve seen have been via books and media. Watching them in real time must really do something to ones soul.
The image closely resembles the one Hubble took. This is just amazing.
Flat Earthers be like - "That's just dust on your lens. Wipe it bro"
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underrated comment
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Facts and I enjoyed this comment
Im waiting for a flat earther to reply lol
This is fake
And look how he edit it in the end
If the galaxy is flat thats mean the earth to
@10:55 my eyes teared up with Joy and with a sense of something that I have never felt before! :') Thank you so much!
I can't imagine anything more breathtaking than taking pictures like that. Astrophotography is my dream.
I was looking at Andromeda Saturday night with my 8" Dob its an amazing sight. Looking forward to seeing your photos
Through a scope that big is it like the usual fuzzy dot with a smudge around it or can you make out details of the galaxy?
@@AV_204 I would love to know that too. In fact I'd love to have a cellphone camera photo taken through the eyepiece, just so I know what to expect from a telescope of that size.
Yes i would also really like to know this because i am thinking of getting a 8" Dob also
Cell phone photos never look as good as what you can see through the eyepiece, so dont use that as a gauge of what to expect. Through my 8" in a dark area Andromeda is big and fuzzy but I can make out enough detail to be happy. Something like the Orion nebula shows way more detail and color. The Ring nebula shows well but lacks color.
@@mudlakemicrobes that must be fantastic. Thank you for the answer. :)
The universe is a beautiful sight 🤯
I mean, Im late but-
this is just *beautiful*
(is it normal i want to cry when watching this? *^*)
Yes you can cry
@@silverisshiny I also wanna cry.. I am not sure why will I cry but this beauty of cosmos will always make me cry
@@Whoo6969
It's fine to cry because of them, they are spectacular and rarely seen.
I will cry with you too.
:D
@@silverisshiny I wish I had a telescope 😢
@@Whoo6969
Me too :'(
i really love how you present every videos of yours, you can feel the love and passion toward the universe and its many wonders, keep up with the great work!
We all just witnessed 2.5 million years in the past, time travel?
PULSAR theoretically speaking if you could some how get there and back in less than 2.5 million years it would be time travel. Traveling through higher dimensions (or wormholes) would make this theoretically possible... however that is yet to be known! Who knows maybe proof of higher dimensional travel will happen in our lifetime
Basically what happened. Is let's say you're in the year 0 you wouldn't be able to see andromeda. You would need to wait 2.5 million years to see it. Well now lets say you're in the year 2.5 million, you see what andromeda looked like in the year 0.
Twuben actually we would be able to see andromeda because when the big bang happened everything was closer and the universe hadn’t expanded that much so we would see it, but if we put your way then yes you are correct
Micah V i don’t understand.
PULSAR if we traveled faster than the speed of light to Andromeda, and looked back we would see our planet from the past because we essentially went faster than light. Now if we turned back and went faster again, essentially beating the light shining back at us, we would be able to “travel” back in time
I just took my first pic of M31 ,I’m so happy.
Lakso :B I could give you my Twitter account, and post it there.
Lakso :B my user name is Astrojin
Congrats!!! I plan on doing that this fall. I am Trying to decide whether to you my telescope/camera set-up Like Astrobackyard did or to just go with my DSLR and a lens.
skyprop I had best results with a dslr but you can try to use the scope.
@@fuiyoh8367 What Lens and exposure settings (Roughly) Did you use? Did you use a tracking mount or not? Thanks For your previous reply a week ago. I Want to at least start with a set up that seemed to work for you at least to some extent.
The reason why I have bought a telescope for astrophotography was this Video and the final result of the andromeda galaxy at the end of your Video. Thanks for the Inspiration! Greetings from Germany
Beautiful, we need to realize what we are missing by looking at our phones❤️😔
Well... that could change in the far future, they won’t need a telescope to see the other galaxy because we have colonized it and assimilated any potential life form
*Imagine in the Andromeda galaxy many aliens has been looking at our galaxy too and taking pictures of our galaxy*
Alien of adromedas is our FANS.. We are celebrities
TechCent maybe we can reach to our intergalactic fans in the far future.... when we colonize their world
Just think back in the old days when they didn’t have all the lights in the city as you can probably see those
Krioque but just imagine staying outside with no lightpolution, seeing all the stars and te milky way! What a wonderful moment that would be...
@Krioque umm really?
I'm impressed. You're a very fortunate man. The study and lab (labor) work you've done is impeccable. Knowledge is priceless. Thank you for sharing.
Looks like I'm going to watch 6 hours of old astrobackyard till this is up 😉
Him: my backyard has a whole view of a galaxy
Me: omg is that a deer
Me: OMG it's the neighbours cat again taking a shit in my backyard.
@@vlakna8513 lmao
Him: trying to take a picture of a galaxy
The clouds: hi
This is the first ever video of this channel i saw 2 years ago and i fell in love with astronomy
Imagine he zooms in closer and sees Earth
Something's wrong, I can feel it.
Oops. Looks like we found the simulation mirror the aliens were trying to hide.
Great image but first and foremost you should be thankful for having such a lovely and supporting wife coming along with you. For most of us this is a very lonesome hobby....
@If you laugh you sub! That's quite insensitive. If your wife supports your hobby then you stand to make de pounds you showed but if she's not, then it will be disagreements all day.
Astro backyard : mmm what im a bringing
Me: take my 1 telescope
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This is ART! Congratulations man!
Thanks for the picture
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Awesome image and we're gonna collide with that thing eventually : D
There are billions of years ahead still
4.5 billion to be exact
4.5 billion years later: “the space force alliance will be reorganized as the first... galactic empire!”
We would love to watch more such videos. Personally I am very much interested in astronomy and can talk for hours if I find companion .
Me too, i am soo into these kind of videos....
My jaw just dropped. What awesome memories you have. Thanks
Nice and your dog is cute
JAYJAY music i agree
You know there could be another planet just like us with living things even people
Zerxxity exactly, crazy to think🤙
+Zerxxity+
Wow! What an original thought.
Zerxxity yeah no shit
@@libraryquiet you must be soooo proud of yourself considering what you said was unoriginal as well.
I just dont understand why people like yourself want to be dipshits.
I guess like the vast mysterious the universe conceals, Ill never know.
@@juliomaldonado4028
I'm guessing that you like science and astronomy as much as I do. So I'm pretty sure that you've read many comments like Zerxxity's on other videos about the universe.
Comments, in one form or another, pertaining to the possibility of life on other worlds.
I have.
I admit my reply to Mr. Zerxxity was sarcastic. It was to let him know that we didn't just fall off the truck. We're not like, "Oh man, I never thought of that, living things on other worlds! Oh wow. What a concept!"
Come on Mr. Zerxxity, this is your moment and that's all you got!? Posting a comment that's been beaten to death.
Sarcasm has it's merits.
I don't know about you but I like creative, engaging, correspondence.
In the end he was expressing his view like I was with my reply. So why does that make me a dipshit?
Dude, from way out in the Atlantic, at 30,000ft, with night vision goggles, you can see Andromeda sooo easily you dont even have to look for it! Its just like finding the moon, you just look at it/see it. And it's so impressive! And so much bigger than it looks through binos!
the weather is so pleasant and beautiful. It reminds me of Japan in Summer 😍
I took a pic of Andromeda with my LG V20 last weekend. 30 second exposure at ISO 100. I didn't have it on a star tracker so it looks like crap but it's there.
can you teach me 😂
Try bumping up the ISO. Of course it will be tiny in your pic. Try milkyway shots instead.
@@joeshmoe7967 I could try that. I think the noise can be a lot more prominent with a phone as opposed to a real camera. I do have a DSLR with adapter for my telescope so I can get decent pictures of some things with that.
@@mawage666 some cell phones have surprisingly decent sensors, but a dslr will be better.
With out a tracker you need to keep exposures to just a few seconds, regardless of camera.. I have found 10 sec max at wide angle. 3 sec max at 300mm. That requires a lot of exposures to stack but it is worthwhile to start. You learn as you go. I just got the star adventurer tracker and it works very well and a huge improvement in my shots
which is that beautiful music while the Andromeda is being shown?
Gorgeous photo mate. Whenever I see andromeda. I always imagine if there are aliens looking back seeing our small Milky Way...
Thanks. I paused at 12:09 and stared at it for a long time. I could see blue stars, white dwarf, yellow dwarfs, orange dwarfs and red dwarfs. Amazing!
Living the dream of owning a sky telescopes through your videos!
It's a monster galaxy with approx a trillion stars! I could even see couple of smaller satellite galaxies. Perhaps it has many more.
Dude, fucking incredible!!, I know why your so into astronomy and deep sky capturing, its fascinating on so many levels, and you do a great job too, just Subbed to your Channel, and I’m already speechless!
All the best and keep up the fine work mate, cheers from
Sydney Australia.
Me on camping trip: “Oh crap, I forgot the binoculars”.
This is the video that got me into astrophotography 2 years ago. Now I have my own setup and was out till 3am last night photographing the Sadr region