Journey through the Virgo supercluster

Journey through our galactic neighborhood. It ends in the giant eliptical galaxy messier 87. A detailed description of the video can be found here:

http://www.philosowiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Journey_through_the_Virgo_Sup...

I added cool sci-fi music by Jerry Goldsmith (RIP). The piece comes from Total recall and is called 'The mutant'.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• galaxy
• milky
• way
• stars
• virgo
• earth
• universe
• astronomy
• cosmos
• supermassive
• black
• hole

[stipa2261]

What is exact name of track playing in background?

[Jacnas]

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

[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.

[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

[marellamofo]

I love it!!!

[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.

[Kvokki]

en (dot) spaceengine (dot) com :)

[porkyminch01]

@Myzenan Just the the world?

[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!!!!!

[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.

[Myzenan]

@Grundalizer THAT IS BULLSHIT GOD CREATED THE WORLD

[Edfiki86]

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

[navghtivs]

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