Journey through the Virgo supercluster

[marellamofo]

I love it!!!

[Kvokki]

en (dot) spaceengine (dot) com :)

[Donatellangelo]

Where did you find this animation?

[MonkeySpecs301]

imagine you are in intergalactic space arriving at a galaxy, as you get nearer and nearer the density of objects and stars increases, but this sight is till in front of you. Then you have travelled within the galaxy for a while and everything is 360!!!!!

[navghtivs]

Very impressive. And to think this is just one super-cluster out of ten million in the observable universe...

[SupErMasSiVepancake]

@navghtivs Thats what i was thinking the scale is hard to get your head around lol. I think it's stupid to think theres not other life out there considering the size theres probably LOADS of life just in the supercluster we're in.

[stipa2261]

What is exact name of track playing in background?

[Jacnas]

@stipa2261 The piece comes from Total recall and is called 'The mutant'.

[stipa2261]

@Jacnas Thanks. Purely brilliant both music and video.

[22Burnette]

Fantastic!

[SupErMasSiVepancake]

if theres one billion years until the earths uninhabitable only considering the warming of the climate, what are the chances of us progressing with space travel enough to find a habitable planet? i wouldve guessed fairly high as long as we arent taken out in some other way before lol.

[tutankhatenll]

The combination of this music and video sends shivers up my spine. My favourite youtube video ever :)

[supercalo79]

theoretically speaking, how fast would we be traveling through this clip? 0-1:10, 1:10-1:15 and so on?

[Jacnas]

@supercalo79 Billions to trillions of times the speed of light.

[Jenkomolenko]

@supercalo79

It's safe to say we accelerate immensely as the clip goes on but at 0:30 we pass Altinak in Orion's belt (825 LY away) light travels at 300,000km per second so that's about 7.7 quadrillion km in the first 30seconds that we'v put behind us (7,700,000,000,000,000km) give or take the odd million.

speed = distance divided by time so you can answer your question yourself now... :-) Does that help you grasp the distances we're talking about? no, me neither

[Edfiki86]

@Jenkomolenko 7, 700, 000, 000, 000, 000 km is still pretty small :-P

[bluesuncompanyman]

@supercalo79 It depends upon the location. In the interstellar medium at the beginning it'll be around 50-100 times the speed of light. As the exit of the milky way occurs it's more on the order of 10,000 times. As we pass along the galactic string to the virgo supercluster, it's on the order of billions of times light speed.

[Richardatf]

And if you accepted of God through Jesus Christ, you shall be able to visit any of these places simply by thinking about them. Better than warpdrive.  Immortality.

[captainbeyond2012]

sounds like music from the abyss to me

[Ahmidsviper]

at the beginning the music sounds like the intro from the movie Scarface

[ExNihiloJimmy]

i wish this had HD

[Guoguodi]

I get chills whenever I watch this video.

[nickharvey7]

This is the best video I have seen on the virgo cluster!!

[mjjuna]

this music is off total recall

[rbolo29]

When the size of our Universe is put into perspective it's none sense to say other intelligent life doesn't exist out there.

[libraryquiet]

@bolo 29 I don't know why comments like yours keep popping up. People know our universe is immense! They also know the possibilities of other life forms existing out there is guaranteed! Get that through your skull. Now...,what kind of life forms, well that's another thing all together. I do know this...., they won't have a spinal cord or the same skeletal structure as ours....., impossible!

[crazymelkor]

@libraryquiet Actually, it is possible that they are similar. Why? Because our structure is an example of what we know works. Bipedal design, two arms with dexterous hands, and a head with a brain that has a large brain to body mass ratio.

[ImSpartacus1314]

This still ain`t as big as me Julie`s fanny.

[Daedalus294]

reminds me of EVE online ...what a wonderful game...

[gofukurdad]

planets give me boners =)

[Iseeisees]

In about 2million years our galaxy will crash with another one.. and then The other galaxy and ours will be united to be 1!

[UncertainTruth]

yea..Andromeda

[libraryquiet]

Hey Iseeisees Correction! In about 5 billion years. We'll intersect with the Andromeda galaxy.

[danfunkman]

@libraryquiet i think its nearer 2.5 to 3 billion years, just looked into Andromeda before this.

[omriee]

If life can form within the rules of the natural world on earth. With the size of our universe, it probably teems with life.

[quatz1981]

Having the Total Recall music in the background is awesome. Great vid!!

[Nubreeder]

You really get to see perceive the magnitude of our galaxy and the universe for that matter. I wish we could journey like that one day.

[Nubreeder]

Sorry a little typo, was see-perceive... =P English not my native language.

[DaMoose85]

i think when & if humans ever make it to m87 they have to make it mandatory to listen to this song as they get close to the galaxy.

[Promatheos]

Humans won't make it to any other galaxy. We'll be lucky to make it to another close star.

[DaMoose85]

one can dream though :)

[Grundalizer]

and people still believe the earth is only 4000 years old, and that "god" created it just for humans? bullshit. we need to start teaching science and not creationism so that someday we might actually have technology to GO to those other galaxies. so awesome.

[quisqueyatv]

i agree with you! imAGINE hoe many beings, cultures, cities, civilization in other parts of the universe! :D

[Myzenan]

@Grundalizer THAT IS BULLSHIT GOD CREATED THE WORLD

[porkyminch01]

@Myzenan Just the the world?

[samuriguy909]

@Grundalizer Even if religion never existed and society was 1000 years more advanced, we could never travel to other galaxies because its physically impossible to travel faster than the speed of light. Just to travel from 1 end of the galaxy to the other would take 100,000 light years. We should instead colonize other earthlike planets in the galaxy.

[INDEPENDENTMUSICCOM]

A great journey to the unknown!!

[waterbaby1618]

cool. i feel very small. The thing i am most scared about in our universe is the black hole. wait i it even in our universe?

[robotaholic]

i have no words that matter- noone does

[robotaholic]

oh my god

[DaMoose85]

i have a question about this video, is this just a PC program or did they send a spacecraft/Satelite to the Virgo supercluster?

[Daencker]

PC program. ;)

Well in fact we are in the Virgo Supercluster. Our milkyway is one out of millions of galaxies which forms our local supercluster. I believe you refer to the end destination of the video. Its the M87 galaxy.

With lightspeed it would take 60 million years to reach M87. Thats far away, but in the big universe scale, it is just in our neighborhood.

[lostinthehair]

The farthest object that we've sent away is the Voyager 1 probe which is currently no where near a lightyear from Earth. While the the M87 (center of our lovely Virgo SC) is 90 million lightyears away.

[trekyz]

What was that colossal bright object at the center of supercluster? A galaxy so large due to many galaxies combining over the eons?

[Dawg126]

the center of the galaxy is probably a super-massive blackhole - the reason it's so bright is because so many stars are being pulled so (relatively) close together. And galaxies don't combine, they're all spreading out

[crazymelkor]

@trekyz That would be galaxy M87. It is the giant elliptical galaxy. The supermassive black hole inside of it weighs in at 2 billion solar masses, although recent studies suggest that it may be even more massive at 7 billion solar masses.

[Daencker]

One of the best visual space journeys i've ever seen. Though they could do a better job with the nebulaes and the other galaxies that we fly through.

The music match this cosmic scene perfectly!

[centerM87]

Breath taking! thanks for posting.

[LeandroRAB]

Astonishing... For me, in order to understand the approximate, not necessary exactly the location of galaxies, I refer to Atlas of the Universe presenting the supergalactic coordinates. I really like it.

[Nostromo1]

Music for this video was "The Mutant" from the Soundtrack for "Total Recall", one of Jerry Goldsmith's finest scores, may he rest in peace.

[dethklok99]

If only we could travel at a warp speed, exceeding even light. This video is the closest I will come in my lifetime. As an a kindred spirit, I thank you for posting this. What a joy to travel so far away in the Universe! If you have more, contact me...please.

[VoteForFreedom]

In a Solar System, there are a few planets.

In a Galaxy, there are hundreds of billions of Solar Systems.

In a Glaxy Cluster there are hundreds of billions of Galaxies.

In a Supercluster, there are hundreds of millions of Galaxy Clusters.

And of course... there are countless Superclusters too.

We need something better than warpdrive...

Immortality would be a nice bonus as well.

[Jacnas]

Those numbers are exagerrated a bit but you're generally right; there is no plausible concept of faster-than-light travel today and without some new groundbraking discovery or theory in physics we simply lack theoretical framework in which such travel could be even possible... let alone attainable.

[swyft187]

Imagination

[mentalrectangle]

Our galaxy cluster has only 3 major galaxies in it, the Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum. The others are tiny satellites, the largest being the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is only 1/10th the size of the Milky Way.

So instead of hundreds of billions it's really more like 3 or 4 on average.

[ExNihiloJimmy]

@VoteForFreedom or an afterlife

[gunns246810]

i think thats like asking wheather or not we will be able to travle into microbes

[BIGSRUGGLES]

nice video.. but im wondering will we humans even in 15 billions years from now if we survive get to explore all these galaxies and that black hole at the end..??? anybody..??

[PeaceLSoul]

in six billion years our sun will change

[13248396]

The answer is very likely not.There r simply 2 many obstacles. Asteroids , black holes, solar blasts, planet disasters( earthquakes , vulcans;etc..), distance , size of objects 2 explore (the planets), humand and machine errors, even hostile alien lifeforms and human conflict itself r possible (although less likely) chances of stopping us b4..

[13248396]

personally , if the human kind live long enough 2 colonize/explore only the «arm» of the milk way we live in would be already something i would say: bloody hell!!!...nowimagine a superrcluster :P...

[Myster36]

there isnt a black hole at the end of the universe... you should probably try to find out what a black hole actually is before you go saying stupid stuff like that

[evengeduld]

if there is and end to it?

who would ever know?

[trekyz]

depending it the 'big bang' theory is real there would be an outer perimeter of the universe.

[Jacnas]

Not at all. THe BB theory is real and the universe either has a finite or infinite volume but in both cases it has no boundary or edge. Imagine a universe that has 2 space dimensions and is curved in such a way that it forms a sphere. Moving in straight line eventually gets you to where you started. Our universe may be such a  4-dimensional 'sphere' but we don't see an infinite number of stars around us because it's only 13 bln years old and light moves at finite speed.

[trekyz]

When I say its shrinking, I meant that the spherical reality of our bubble like universe, is getting smaller, and so the galaxies are having less space. But, I guess that would be incorrect, if the universe would shrink, but all at once, so it seems as though its the same size (if its shrinking). So I guess it would be gravity that would cause galaxies to crash into each other.

[Jacnas]

Do you mean shrinking of the event horizon around our earth (which is possible only if the big rip hypothesis is true) or shrinking distances between galaxies due to gravity? In the second instance the horizon would still expand at the same speed it does now (and has since the beginning); the speed of light.

[trekyz]

Yeah, when I referred to the shrinking theory, I was going along the lines of the event horizon idea. And gravity would bring galaxies together, not a shrinking universe. Actually, if the the red shift theory is true then the universe can't be shrinking(I forgot about red-shift).

[danfunkman]

galaxies crash into each other all the time, in fact when we look at the early universe we see lots of featureles small galaxies. as they merge they get bigger and form the features we see in older galaxies. so i dont think this is proof that the universe is shrinking.if we were to instantly travel to the "edge" of our visible universe we would be able to see another 14bly into a universe we would never be able to see and this would be true if we traveled to any point in our visible universe.

[sonnenderkind]

spectacular!