im 13 years old and i came here hoping to get some answers for physics, but i stayed, this was REAALLY interesting, especially the thing about light years... thank you :)
I saw it on a semi-clear night but each time I looked directly at it it friggin vanished and each time I looked away I saw a "white cloud" appear in the corner of my eye! How dare?!
Thanks to this video, I saw my first galaxy last night! Just a speck that wouldn't focus. Took forever to find it. Later when the moon was up, I found I could go right to it in a minute. 10" Dobsonian on order!
Absolutely, life and probably billions of civilizations are out there however, many could have developed and then imploded, even the Greek civilization was only around for a few thousand years before it fell. So, we would have to find civilizations at exactly the same point in their development that we are...language? mathematics? computers? or more likely WAY ahead of us & maybe waiting for us to catch up! Think of the possibilities!
Billions of galaxies? How can we determine that? It could be infinite, light just isn't powerful enough to reach us beyond the point we have seen them. It's mind boggling.
you can find it just by finding the Cassiopeia constellation... use that pointer tip that is shown in this video.Andromeda looks like a little cloud but you can tell what it is because of the shape...I found it the first night after I bought my binoculars it's very easy
It's a shame that we have so much light pollution. The last time that I saw the night sky lit up with thousands of stars was the early morning of the Northridge earthquake. The quake knocked every single light coming from homes, buildings, billboards you name it it was out and all I remember me and my neighbors doing was looking up at the sky. There were little kids who had never ever seen what a night sky actually looks like. That's sad. I say the entire world should go black once a year .
Grew up in northcentral South Dakota, the nights skies there will blow your mind! It took my mind off the farm I was forced to grow up on, the night sky confirmed that there was life beyond the pigs and cows I had to work with 7 days a week, I didn't know there was a galaxy visible with binocular, this is cool!
Great video. I find the Andromeda easily, by tracing a line from the V of Cassiopeia to the fairly bright star, then move a bit back to Cas to see a fainter star nearby, and another faint star that's slightly to the side. The faint smudge of light that's the Andromeda sits there, like someone's been painting with white paint and accidentaly left a smudgy thumb print.
I'm not sure if I'm seeing it yet because it looks so faint. I know I'm looking in the correct spot. Does it look faint to the rest of you?? (I'm in SoCal)
@marevangel88 If you are using binoculars, Andromeda will look faint. A number of things will influence how faint/bright it will be. Light pollution is a major factor--human light pollution and light from the Moon. From my home, Andromeda looks faint through my binoculars--a small smudge that could be easily missed. In the summer, at the lake where the light pollution is considerably less, Andromeda is brighter and the spread of it is obvious. The difference is dramatic.
i live in chicago and the only thing i can see is the north star and the moon. I remember when i was a kid my family went on vacation to eagle river-northern wisconsin. I can remember seeing literally thousands of stars and the most amazing thing was actually seeing the milky way galaxy itself the waves of bands of our spiral galaxy. If anybody has seen it it's the most amazing thing. I just took a trip up to wisconsin this year and u can no longer see the milky way galaxy or as many stars :(
Its so big, that even with the speed of light, which you cannot surpass, it takes around four and a half years to get to the NEAREST star. The NEAREST.
When you would want to cross our galaxy, or even travel to other galaxies it would take hundreds, thousands and even billions of years.
You understand that we need to find a new method of getting around in the universe, since reaching top-speed possible won't help..
can someone explain: why can we see dozens of galaxies, and why arent we able to find planets in our own galaxy? I mean, these other galaxies are so much further away..
last night my teacher and some students in my class went to an observatory and i saw Mars, Saturn, Shooting Star, Those satellites that go above us each night (approximately 22,000 MPH), a Blue-white star, and the moon close up.
acually our galaxy is called the milky way galaxy because the romans would look up in the sky and see a white line in the sky and think it looks like a line of spilt milk and m31 the closest galaxy can be seen by the naked eye but it looks like a bright star if im correct its somewhere in the big dipper
I wish there wasn't any pollution in city's so we could always see all the stars and galaxies right above us clear as the moon, on a clear night sky. That would be awesome, just seeing the Milky Way centre and other galaxies and stars.....
Wow there are billions of galaxies out there i can bet my life we are not alone. I'm 99% sure there are other planets like Earth but no evidence or radio waves to pick up since we godzillion light years apart. Only our spirits will take us there..in a blink of an eye...like being reborn into a next life
@JPHET37 Totally. I think when we die, it's just a bunch of cells collapsing and rotting, cells can be reborn though so maybe ''my'' next life can be in another galaxy, without memories of the past, maybe ''I've'' been another micro-organism, an animal on another planet, or an insect.
Finding galaxies is easy once you have Stellarium on your computer...its a free download and real-time picture of whats in the night sky at that time and at your location...its brill.
Hi, thank you so much on this how to video. I have an refractor telescope 90mm f/5,5. I finded all planets besides Mercury, Mizar star, pleiades, Orion, but never Andromeda. Will try with this explanation first next clear night sky.
it looks like a small nebulae doesn't it? :) i saw it with my celestron astromaster 130eq and its pretty big but the problem is my light pollution and when i saw it , it was in time of high pressure humidity so ,but i also saw it with my binoculars it loks like a bright cloud in space!!
I think the way the clock rotates come from the way the Earth rotates around the sun. Early watches was constructed to make the sun cast a shadow and measure what time it is. No facts, this is my theorie.
A galaxy is a huge cloud-like thing which is infact made up of stars. To better explain that, it is made up of what keeps us alive, the Sun. Galaxies are formed by trillions of burning-hot stars. We are in a galaxy and we are one of countless more solar systems.
Its okay to ask! well... A galaxy is a colossal rotating clump of stars, planets, gas and cosmic dust in space containing BILLIONS of Stars (suns).
Our galaxy in which our solar system resides is named "the milky way" and is estimated to contain over 300 billions of stars!!!! our sun, earth and solar system are located in a spiral arm of the milky way. Estimations indicate that there are around 500 billion other galaxies in in the universe
@remix111able U need to check what a galaxy is on wikipedia or something. or just type galaxies in the youtube search engine. It's basically a collection of matter all held together by gravity; in them u can expect to find 200-400 billion stars! crazy huh!
I have seen the central disc on a clear night sky. Its beautiful, but you have to tell yourself its not a stray cloud, because it isnt. Its a shame there is so much dust and gas in the way otherwise we would be able to see the tremendous light coming from the black hole at the centre. Right now im trying to see galaxy M31 but its so hard with the light pollution here. I live in newcastle and can see the disc fine. In order for you to see the disc you might need to go to a wood or field.
It's amazing how far away galaxies are, if the sun were a period on a piece of paper, our milky way would be the continental US. And we are looking at objects of rival and greater sizes so far away that our eye only sees the closest one as a blurry spec.
if you know where its at you can see the dim light from it with your bare eye. also you can spot the whirlpool galaxy with binoculars. it's a bit down from andromeda (when facing east at this time of year) and much much more faint.
hi i was hopeing you could help me with my binoculars on a faily clear night i have been looking at this star/mass in the sky which is the brightest one i can see and is in the same spot all the time i live in pa if that helps
Hey ScienceOnline, I've done something similar to this with my own, much smaller binoculars, and that is looking at the Orion Nebula. It looks great, even though it looks like a little floater in your eye. Thanks for posting this video, I will use it to help me find this particular galaxy.
Thanks a lot, i knew that we can see it with naked eye, but i didn't know where is it, now i found it. using 80mm small telescope i saw it. when i was seeing at billions of stars together, i can't explain what i felt !!!!!!!
well, the light we are receiving from Andromeda is 2.5 million years old, give or take a few years, so I'd say no since Dinosaurs were here around 64 million years ago.
It's called M-31 because the messier guy was the first one to see it and name it, hence the "M". He found 101 different deep-sky objects and proved that they are not comets or something.
What is the reason for galaxy's being designated anonymous names such as M31? Is it just a case of convenience due to there being too many galaxy's in the universe to name them all or some other reason?
what do ypu mean? some space objects ar called like m1 or m61 becouse they are in the mesier catalog the "M" stand for Messier and the number is its number in the catalog.
whixh galaxy or star cluster is at the bottom of the little or big dipper?. anyone know?. you can see it it looks fuzzy with the naked eye. always wondered what it was someone say plz.
most likely it would be a galaxy because there are mostly galaxies around there no star clusters and if it does look fuzzy then you must be so lucky because u can see it with the naked eye the place were I live I cant see anything with the naked eye cause of all the pollution! Id recommend getting a nice pair of binoculars or a starter telescope so u can enjoy it and if u see it as fuzzy imagine how u will see it magnified with binoculars or a telescope! Ive been trying to find galaxies around
the big dipper with my 5.1 inch reflector but because too much pollution its just too hard! Using binoculars though has always helped me locate them very quickly. astronomy Id say is one of the top hobbys if really enjoyed right! Its the best hobby ive ever had and it never gets boring!
I know that underneath the dipper and to an angle back towards the dipper is the whirlpool galaxy. I also think that the pin wheel galaxy is somewhere in ursa major, aka the big dipper
Excellent video! I saw Andromeda through my 6" newtonian from the top of cypress hills, Saskatchewan and it was amazing. I could see the dark dust bands contrasted against the lighter haze of the stars.
It makes one dizzy to contemplate the sheer immensity.
itss well goodd i read in iths book that andromeda actually stretches 5 moon diameters across the sky i wonder if you were out in the middle of nowhere would you be able to see it with just your eye?? this stuffs mind blowing for me
Great video
contedara 2 months ago
im 13 years old and i came here hoping to get some answers for physics, but i stayed, this was REAALLY interesting, especially the thing about light years... thank you :)
Fodatoe 2 months ago 2
Man seing how big the universe actually is, it makes life look small and pointless.
TheShadyFro 3 months ago
Thank you so much for this video. I've been trying to find Andromeda in the sky, but now I know how to. Hoping it's a clear night tonight.
waynesan31 3 months ago
I saw it on a semi-clear night but each time I looked directly at it it friggin vanished and each time I looked away I saw a "white cloud" appear in the corner of my eye! How dare?!
iamfuyu 4 months ago
wow-this is magnificent-THX a great deal!:)
gretchenremington 4 months ago
Thanks to this video, I saw my first galaxy last night! Just a speck that wouldn't focus. Took forever to find it. Later when the moon was up, I found I could go right to it in a minute. 10" Dobsonian on order!
gliderrider 4 months ago
you know what? the hila people work at my school and teach me and my class from time to time 8D
Jameslikespudding 5 months ago
Absolutely, life and probably billions of civilizations are out there however, many could have developed and then imploded, even the Greek civilization was only around for a few thousand years before it fell. So, we would have to find civilizations at exactly the same point in their development that we are...language? mathematics? computers? or more likely WAY ahead of us & maybe waiting for us to catch up! Think of the possibilities!
StillC1020 5 months ago
Brilliant video. :D
Diddleshot 5 months ago
Billions of galaxies? How can we determine that? It could be infinite, light just isn't powerful enough to reach us beyond the point we have seen them. It's mind boggling.
Diddleshot 5 months ago
It is sad, with how much pollution there is now, you probably can't see it anymore.
Tommyrazor2 5 months ago
you can find it just by finding the Cassiopeia constellation... use that pointer tip that is shown in this video.Andromeda looks like a little cloud but you can tell what it is because of the shape...I found it the first night after I bought my binoculars it's very easy
denispkpk 6 months ago
It's a shame that we have so much light pollution. The last time that I saw the night sky lit up with thousands of stars was the early morning of the Northridge earthquake. The quake knocked every single light coming from homes, buildings, billboards you name it it was out and all I remember me and my neighbors doing was looking up at the sky. There were little kids who had never ever seen what a night sky actually looks like. That's sad. I say the entire world should go black once a year .
marellamofo 6 months ago
These are good directions to find M31, but you could also learn the Andromeda constellation and find it off the front knee.
IndianaJones8856 7 months ago
A billion + galaxies with trillions of stars in each one....... my head hurts.
saxabass 7 months ago
Grew up in northcentral South Dakota, the nights skies there will blow your mind! It took my mind off the farm I was forced to grow up on, the night sky confirmed that there was life beyond the pigs and cows I had to work with 7 days a week, I didn't know there was a galaxy visible with binocular, this is cool!
wurtzgood 7 months ago
Great video. I find the Andromeda easily, by tracing a line from the V of Cassiopeia to the fairly bright star, then move a bit back to Cas to see a fainter star nearby, and another faint star that's slightly to the side. The faint smudge of light that's the Andromeda sits there, like someone's been painting with white paint and accidentaly left a smudgy thumb print.
maksphoto78 11 months ago
"looking back in time"------ wow. I just paused the video and had to think about that statement for a while.
DeadBodyOutline 11 months ago
There is other life, its stupid to throw the idea away
246Valkyrie246 1 year ago 35
I'm not sure if I'm seeing it yet because it looks so faint. I know I'm looking in the correct spot. Does it look faint to the rest of you?? (I'm in SoCal)
marevangel88 1 year ago 3
@marevangel88 If you are using binoculars, Andromeda will look faint. A number of things will influence how faint/bright it will be. Light pollution is a major factor--human light pollution and light from the Moon. From my home, Andromeda looks faint through my binoculars--a small smudge that could be easily missed. In the summer, at the lake where the light pollution is considerably less, Andromeda is brighter and the spread of it is obvious. The difference is dramatic.
doyoulookup 1 year ago
Thanks for this very informative video. Well explained.
merakli07 1 year ago 6
I think there must be intelligent life in other galaxies but they are to away to reach us....
thefatha 1 year ago 9
So Andromeda is located 9.460.800.000.000 km away from Earth...I guess I should get going, then.
makaronake 1 year ago 15
i live in chicago and the only thing i can see is the north star and the moon. I remember when i was a kid my family went on vacation to eagle river-northern wisconsin. I can remember seeing literally thousands of stars and the most amazing thing was actually seeing the milky way galaxy itself the waves of bands of our spiral galaxy. If anybody has seen it it's the most amazing thing. I just took a trip up to wisconsin this year and u can no longer see the milky way galaxy or as many stars :(
Gforcebond 1 year ago 8
cool video
SatansFloater 1 year ago
I saw andromeda yesterday in my 12" dobson. We where on 2200 meters on the St.Gotthard! Seeing was perfect and andromeda icredibly beautiful.
Yemia 1 year ago 4
yea, space is breathtaking.
Its so big, that even with the speed of light, which you cannot surpass, it takes around four and a half years to get to the NEAREST star. The NEAREST.
When you would want to cross our galaxy, or even travel to other galaxies it would take hundreds, thousands and even billions of years.
You understand that we need to find a new method of getting around in the universe, since reaching top-speed possible won't help..
bellaKohler 1 year ago 6
hey umm, may i ask you approx. how much magnification do you need to clearly see even the eyes of the person at 50m?
sexkinger 1 year ago
EXCELLENT Video. :)
SpinergyDude 1 year ago
I like binoculars, such an amazing piece of optical instrument.
dvamateur 1 year ago
I belive that there is life on another planet...it's impossible for us to be alone in this Big SPACE :|
cizdamea 1 year ago
WOW!!!
OvErTrAiNiNg007 1 year ago
were not alone
Bbustos1124 1 year ago
This helped me find Andromeda for the first time tonight :) Thanks so much
YouSirAreNoob 1 year ago
Ty very much! the next clear night i take a look :D
MrIlovetrance 1 year ago
Wow i own a 15x70 and m31 is going to look huge then!
imanoob4 1 year ago
Anything you look at in the sky you are looking at back in time even the sun.
About 4 sec ago
Muirselgas 1 year ago
2.5 million light years, wooowwww, my puny lil human brain can't even comprehend as to how far that is, space truly is amazing
artur1991iinc 1 year ago
i have 10x30 binoculars, are they good.
agentgta007 1 year ago
can someone explain: why can we see dozens of galaxies, and why arent we able to find planets in our own galaxy? I mean, these other galaxies are so much further away..
meOisOme 1 year ago
last night my teacher and some students in my class went to an observatory and i saw Mars, Saturn, Shooting Star, Those satellites that go above us each night (approximately 22,000 MPH), a Blue-white star, and the moon close up.
Spencer58844 1 year ago
i cant get andromeda on my telescope or even a planet, :( any help guys?/
mixolidianmode 1 year ago
Very interesting. Having a good pair of binoculars really helps.
MrChristian326 1 year ago
acually our galaxy is called the milky way galaxy because the romans would look up in the sky and see a white line in the sky and think it looks like a line of spilt milk and m31 the closest galaxy can be seen by the naked eye but it looks like a bright star if im correct its somewhere in the big dipper
robster72895 1 year ago
could you actually se m31 with an eye??
chiefpatryk12 1 year ago
Cassiopeia is right outside my window!!! :D
allsecretsknown 1 year ago
Really great vid: interesting stuff and clear explanations.
However, the narrator's soft and gentle voice makes feel sleepy.
Arlekean 1 year ago
wonderful. you are one of the greatest scientist in our galaxy system. and i am a high school student! lol
tsdz2008 1 year ago
I wish there wasn't any pollution in city's so we could always see all the stars and galaxies right above us clear as the moon, on a clear night sky. That would be awesome, just seeing the Milky Way centre and other galaxies and stars.....
fabregas360 1 year ago 15
This is amazing... You think that there is nothing to do, well your wrong... Just looking in the the night sky and check it out, it is beautiful...
patandjami1981 1 year ago 6
yeah your right same of a galaxy's
spiral,elliptical,irregular......is that right?
alliahmanguiat28 1 year ago
Wow... we all busy around with our lives, worrying about bills and taxes when all this is floating around above us......
motormusic1 1 year ago 245
Wow there are billions of galaxies out there i can bet my life we are not alone. I'm 99% sure there are other planets like Earth but no evidence or radio waves to pick up since we godzillion light years apart. Only our spirits will take us there..in a blink of an eye...like being reborn into a next life
JPHET37 1 year ago 117
@JPHET37 Totally. I think when we die, it's just a bunch of cells collapsing and rotting, cells can be reborn though so maybe ''my'' next life can be in another galaxy, without memories of the past, maybe ''I've'' been another micro-organism, an animal on another planet, or an insect.
fabregas360 1 year ago 11
What gets me when you look at M31 is that you can be certain somebody's looking back at you.
GHLIII 1 year ago 17
I love your videos :)
pithikoulis 1 year ago 6
how they know its a galaxy they have not be there its are maybe just a star ?
MrQung 1 year ago
on that picture you actualy can see the andromeda galaxy with naked eye, but recognizing is another story :P
masterjamie9 1 year ago
awesome videos
ivancecil80 2 years ago
Finding galaxies is easy once you have Stellarium on your computer...its a free download and real-time picture of whats in the night sky at that time and at your location...its brill.
SuperNaggy 2 years ago
Very well explained. Thanks for sharing!
mabroukali 2 years ago
Hi, thank you so much on this how to video. I have an refractor telescope 90mm f/5,5. I finded all planets besides Mercury, Mizar star, pleiades, Orion, but never Andromeda. Will try with this explanation first next clear night sky.
0805Alan 2 years ago
@0805Alan "will try with this explanation first nixt clear night sky"
Well, how did it go?
M31andM32 1 year ago
I use 15 x 70 's and barely found it. Heard it can be seen eye-naked....
messierthirtyone 2 years ago
great vid. light pollution sucks though, i use 15x70's and barely found it...
messierthirtyone 2 years ago
great video...didn't know this.
remnant1978 2 years ago
It's a very nice video, and provides excellent details.
I have one problem... How do I find the Andromeda Galaxy in the Southern Hemisphere?
DarthOxillious 2 years ago
space is such a big place .
SonLastName 2 years ago 9
Wonderful!
So many videos tell you about the Andromeda, but not how to find it and look at it yourself.
This is very nicely done!
neoaeonian 2 years ago
Very nice to watch and its interesting.
mathieugeorge 2 years ago 4
Nice vid I'm trying tonight to find it with my 8-20x50 binoculars : )
Maekiii 2 years ago
very educating
azooz500 2 years ago
How compelling.
GoodOrion2113 2 years ago
nice video thanks!
ayod16 2 years ago
your so cool man thx for uploading this vid
specter290 2 years ago
I found M31 last night :D
Squipplekillzbitches 2 years ago 2
it looks like a small nebulae doesn't it? :) i saw it with my celestron astromaster 130eq and its pretty big but the problem is my light pollution and when i saw it , it was in time of high pressure humidity so ,but i also saw it with my binoculars it loks like a bright cloud in space!!
vwlover94 2 years ago
i thought we can see the andromeda galaxy in autum. maybe year long?
2012TheAndromeda 2 years ago
Thank you so much!!
grabedigger 2 years ago
If the milky way rotates in a clockwise motion did that have any effect on which direction the clocks turn?
or just a coincidence that maybe something beyond our understanding influenced us to choose that direction for the hands to rotate?
InfidelAntichristian 2 years ago
I think the way the clock rotates come from the way the Earth rotates around the sun. Early watches was constructed to make the sun cast a shadow and measure what time it is. No facts, this is my theorie.
AX53B60 2 years ago
lol i actually saw Andromeda through the binoculars but wasn't very clear
omgnoobkiller 2 years ago
I use the Cassiopaeia pointer to point out the Pegasus star, and follow the line from Pegasus to M31.
george7378 2 years ago
Who Knows? the Andromeda galaxy could be long gone... and were simply looking at the light still traveling to earth...
aleclego 2 years ago 2
hi M31 : )
GOOSEBUMPS1011 2 years ago
Thanks a lot, now I can find Andromeda.
AQWorldsTheFabled 2 years ago
what is galaxy?what does it do?what is the point of galaxy? i know it's sound stupid but.......plz
remix111able 2 years ago
A galaxy is a huge cloud-like thing which is infact made up of stars. To better explain that, it is made up of what keeps us alive, the Sun. Galaxies are formed by trillions of burning-hot stars. We are in a galaxy and we are one of countless more solar systems.
TekHelper 2 years ago
Its okay to ask! well... A galaxy is a colossal rotating clump of stars, planets, gas and cosmic dust in space containing BILLIONS of Stars (suns).
Our galaxy in which our solar system resides is named "the milky way" and is estimated to contain over 300 billions of stars!!!! our sun, earth and solar system are located in a spiral arm of the milky way. Estimations indicate that there are around 500 billion other galaxies in in the universe
caste2510 2 years ago 2
well dude,if you're interested enough..research about it on the net..and try to read science books and other references materials.
edsylle 2 years ago
@remix111able
Galaxies are there to entertain the curious human race until extinction. That's pretty much it.
Rfsancho 2 years ago
@remix111able U need to check what a galaxy is on wikipedia or something. or just type galaxies in the youtube search engine. It's basically a collection of matter all held together by gravity; in them u can expect to find 200-400 billion stars! crazy huh!
Obama4Prezz 2 years ago
I have seen the central disc on a clear night sky. Its beautiful, but you have to tell yourself its not a stray cloud, because it isnt. Its a shame there is so much dust and gas in the way otherwise we would be able to see the tremendous light coming from the black hole at the centre. Right now im trying to see galaxy M31 but its so hard with the light pollution here. I live in newcastle and can see the disc fine. In order for you to see the disc you might need to go to a wood or field.
ihatethelaw 2 years ago 2
i live in sunderland can you see it from here in the uk
liljackoere 2 years ago
It's amazing how far away galaxies are, if the sun were a period on a piece of paper, our milky way would be the continental US. And we are looking at objects of rival and greater sizes so far away that our eye only sees the closest one as a blurry spec.
aarn321 2 years ago
I can see Andromeda with the naked eye, but it's just a slight blur compared to binoculars...
To think, that galaxy is farther away than every other star you see in the sky.
There is so much you can see with just the naked eye, let alone with a pair of binoculars.. Crazy...
calosity 2 years ago
has anyone who lives in england been able to see the milky way in a clear sky? coz where I live in Leeds it's practically impossible to see it.
mralanv 2 years ago
Yeah, cool video.
sounds like Michael Moore narrating ;-)
M31andM32 2 years ago
Thanks for your great information.
Great video.
joeelipo 2 years ago
everything is just so huge... i was just upset about not getting my way over somethng dumb about 5 minutes ago... now, its like who cares.
what a wonderful place, space
huntsman1230 2 years ago 6
To think that we are the only planet in the whole universe with life on it is absurd.
wretchedwon 2 years ago 2
Thanks for this, man. Very useful!
felsner1 2 years ago
That's why I don't think we are the only intelligent civilization in the universe.
There HAS to be other civilizations somewhere.
ArataMusic1 2 years ago
Thanks!
Now I can find Andromeda what I'm searching some years.
Great thanks!
85kanuto 2 years ago
thanks
I love this videos
cristianhdzhdz 2 years ago
wow thanks! its true that we are not alone the univers! its maybe somevone whos wondering if we are real! cooool!
spacekid1000 2 years ago
Thanks for the tip
phandong1985 2 years ago
if you know where its at you can see the dim light from it with your bare eye. also you can spot the whirlpool galaxy with binoculars. it's a bit down from andromeda (when facing east at this time of year) and much much more faint.
kevman5 2 years ago
hi i was hopeing you could help me with my binoculars on a faily clear night i have been looking at this star/mass in the sky which is the brightest one i can see and is in the same spot all the time i live in pa if that helps
golfisgreat123 2 years ago
great vid. good knowledge
citycentregreen 2 years ago
awesome
skilax 2 years ago
thanks for the vid! Funny to see it with my own eyes :) With binoculars it looked pretty dim but was worth to locate :)
jannexorz 2 years ago
there are so many galaxies...Certainly we are not alone in the universe !
totalscp 2 years ago 3
we are probably alone in the universe
the chances of life starting are STUPENDOUSLY small
you base your argument on wishful thinking, not science
we don't know just how hard it is for life to start, thus we cant say that life is all over the place
TheMorbidAtheist 2 years ago
but you have NO idea how big the universe is.
anonymousstormchaser 2 years ago 3
It is so interesting ! I can`t believe, that we`re alone . there are so many solar systems and so many galaxies...
SopikoGe 2 years ago 2
i live in a large city. so i wont able to view any stars at night. unless if i left the city area
dietzchris 2 years ago
Yeah me too, I live in NYC and I only see the moon :(
SopikoGe 2 years ago
Hey ScienceOnline, I've done something similar to this with my own, much smaller binoculars, and that is looking at the Orion Nebula. It looks great, even though it looks like a little floater in your eye. Thanks for posting this video, I will use it to help me find this particular galaxy.
AgentAndromeda 2 years ago
i just love too look up in the sky and think that we are not alone in the universe. :')
monkey9090 2 years ago 3
We aren't!! XD
J90lude 2 years ago
Thanks a lot, i knew that we can see it with naked eye, but i didn't know where is it, now i found it. using 80mm small telescope i saw it. when i was seeing at billions of stars together, i can't explain what i felt !!!!!!!
gurnold1 2 years ago 3
So if you lived in the Andromeda galaxy and you used a really good telescope and pointed it at Earth could you see the dinosaurs?
aaabronco 2 years ago 4
wow,,, i never thought of that,, i guess so!! creepy eh
mariomania 2 years ago
lol ~ very nice question! if that's true it'll be really amazing !
laibas 2 years ago
well, the light we are receiving from Andromeda is 2.5 million years old, give or take a few years, so I'd say no since Dinosaurs were here around 64 million years ago.
darkalien54 2 years ago
good point =)
caste2510 2 years ago
Thank you for this contribute, it is use useful indeed.
Inolbod 2 years ago 2
well actulally andromeda may have vanished 2.499.999 years ago and you cand still see it :)
messierthirtyone 2 years ago 5
Look at M13 in hercules you can se it with your bare eye if it is a dark winternight!!!
M13MusicNut 2 years ago
It's called M-31 because the messier guy was the first one to see it and name it, hence the "M". He found 101 different deep-sky objects and proved that they are not comets or something.
atbsfia 2 years ago
What is the reason for galaxy's being designated anonymous names such as M31? Is it just a case of convenience due to there being too many galaxy's in the universe to name them all or some other reason?
DiscipleOfTheSword 2 years ago
what do ypu mean? some space objects ar called like m1 or m61 becouse they are in the mesier catalog the "M" stand for Messier and the number is its number in the catalog.
totodile2 2 years ago
Do I have to have a computerized telescope to get softwares that find objects for me?
CrazyLegoStudios4 2 years ago
I saw a Orion in my 12x45m binocular made in USSR :D o/O
sandor139 2 years ago 2
whixh galaxy or star cluster is at the bottom of the little or big dipper?. anyone know?. you can see it it looks fuzzy with the naked eye. always wondered what it was someone say plz.
lukeslandspeeder 2 years ago
most likely it would be a galaxy because there are mostly galaxies around there no star clusters and if it does look fuzzy then you must be so lucky because u can see it with the naked eye the place were I live I cant see anything with the naked eye cause of all the pollution! Id recommend getting a nice pair of binoculars or a starter telescope so u can enjoy it and if u see it as fuzzy imagine how u will see it magnified with binoculars or a telescope! Ive been trying to find galaxies around
Edsan91 2 years ago
the big dipper with my 5.1 inch reflector but because too much pollution its just too hard! Using binoculars though has always helped me locate them very quickly. astronomy Id say is one of the top hobbys if really enjoyed right! Its the best hobby ive ever had and it never gets boring!
Edsan91 2 years ago
I know that underneath the dipper and to an angle back towards the dipper is the whirlpool galaxy. I also think that the pin wheel galaxy is somewhere in ursa major, aka the big dipper
HuskeHardcore 2 years ago
You can see the Virgo Galaxy cluster with binoculars too. 60 million lightyears away from us.
cmsahe 2 years ago
Excellent video! I saw Andromeda through my 6" newtonian from the top of cypress hills, Saskatchewan and it was amazing. I could see the dark dust bands contrasted against the lighter haze of the stars.
It makes one dizzy to contemplate the sheer immensity.
majorvoltage 2 years ago 2
Sounds awesome.. it's incredible to see such things
thelastwords 2 years ago
"When you look into space, you are looking into the past."
COOL!!!!
JordanMaster22 2 years ago
im always amazed by space WE SEE THE PAST i love how that sounds
xzeater666x 2 years ago 4
i know!
i never quite understood light years.
this is sooo cool.
my minds like boggled lol
shweetz912 2 years ago
great video.. this has helped me find andromeda.. thanks!!
jamieball 2 years ago
i saw it with my naked eyes in a hot country when i went on holiday
ahadsconstant 2 years ago
i saw it with my 10x50 binoculars
wefiyhigh56 2 years ago
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jamieball 2 years ago 4
i saw it with my 10x50 binoculars
1234qwerty09 2 years ago
turns out i have seen the galaxy many times... just dint recognize it. thanks
prabhatkaushik 2 years ago 2
cool
twilight41798 2 years ago 2
I like space
alexonian96 2 years ago 6
wow i hope i will see them my binoculars were 50 pound so they should
farcry2LFC 2 years ago
wow its beautyfull !! i watched it with a telescoop 60mm using a 1,5 x 20mm lens
it fills your image !!! you can see te brighter stars of the galaxy !
rvmdutch 3 years ago 4
i saw the galaxy
its cool
1234qwerty09 3 years ago 5
when i get older my wonder will naver stray i like thos guy
zeratul575 3 years ago 2
I found Andromeda with binoculars before I saw this video, it looks like a blue fuss.
To see celestial objects clearly, go outside at midnight, which is the opposite end of the sun, so the sky is at it's clearest.
GunShard 3 years ago
Wow tou thihnk earth is big yet so small an tiny tho so fortunate
Scimmy75 3 years ago
itss well goodd i read in iths book that andromeda actually stretches 5 moon diameters across the sky i wonder if you were out in the middle of nowhere would you be able to see it with just your eye?? this stuffs mind blowing for me
twokn 3 years ago
thank you very much! these videos r so helpful!
dgleason2 3 years ago
coooool u'r the best
LE5200 3 years ago
thanks great video
alexyynz 3 years ago
Makes u feel so small and fortunate at the same time. simply marvellous. good 2 see
pnamman 3 years ago
thankyou...
secondprize72 3 years ago
Thank you so much for the video! It has helped me dispel some doubts with regard to the position of Andromeda galaxy. Now everything is clear.
DuncanLafayette 3 years ago 2
Thank you so much for this great video! It has helped me dispel some doubts that I had with regard to the position of Andromeda galaxy.
DuncanLafayette 3 years ago
I am going to have to try this on a clear night. Great video
pclover 3 years ago
Great video like always!
heven729 3 years ago 2
i loved this. its so interesting and amazing. i just expanded my intelligence. thank you
thepianolover4ever 3 years ago 2
One word: Amazing.
I myself have tried to use my telescope in my backyard, and all the times I have never been able to find M31.
Invun
P.S. Isn't this Galaxy a Galaxy that collided with another one a few years ago? I am not sure if it was M31 or M37.
invunable 3 years ago 4
It's actually easier to find in binoculars. And yes, it seems that M31 has "eaten" other smaller galaxies.
Pingletons 3 years ago
Very interesting as always!
I use Microsoft WorldWide Telescope for studying the "heavens", it's free and I recommend it to everybody. ;)
random414 3 years ago 2
Good upload
blobrana 3 years ago
...Gonna do it tonight!!!
747dog 3 years ago