Milky Way - Journey through our Galaxy

Video about the Milky Way as seen from Earth by the megatelescopes of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The first part of this video shows the central part of our Milky Way Galaxy, starting with images in the visible spectrum, and then when the sequence closes in on the centre it shifts to VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) infrared images and penetrates most of the dust revealing huge numbers of hidden stars. In the second part follows a sequence where the VISTA infrared view of the region of the Galactic Centre is scanned. The third part is a zoom sequence that starts with a view of the central parts of the Milky Way Galaxy and works inwards and towards the Arches Cluster, buried deep beyond the dust clouds, then follows a transition from visible to near-infrared observations. The fourth and last part shows a sequence that uses an 800-million-pixel, 360-degree panoramic image featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), it moves towards the Galactic Centre, and then across the Galactic Plane that runs horizontally through the image. First and second parts motion pictures made by ESO / VISTA / S. Guisard and the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit; third and fourth parts made by ESO / S. Brunier, P. Espinoza, S. Guisard, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and A. Fujii. ALL MOTION IMAGES RELEASED BY ESO UNDER AN ATTRIBUTION-UNPORTED 3.0 CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE. Music by Butterfly Tea, the song "Sirens from the Milky Way", from the album "Butterfly Odyssey", released under an Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike, 3.0 Creative Commons License. ATTENTION: THIS VIDEO IS RELEASED UNDER AN ATTRIBUTION, NON-COMMERCIAL, SHARE-ALIKE, 3.0 CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• astronomy
• Milky
• Way
• galaxy
• ESO
• visible
• infrared
• spectrum
• zoom
• pan
• hidden
• stars
• Arches
• cluster

[logan4148]

This is wonderful!

[AstroRadar]

@logan4148: ¡Thanks a lot, and thanks for subscribing and friendship! THL

[zunaic]

@AstroRadar Really like the video, did you compose the music as well?

[AstroRadar]

@zunaic: Hi! No, I only edited images released by ESO and put music on it from Butterfly Tea. Please watch the final credits on the video at the end of it, or read the description of the video. You will find all the information about who did what, and the licenses under which this works have been used. Thank you.

[zunaic]

@AstroRadar Hi, thanks for getting back. When I watched it last time, I missed the credits! Love the tune and the pics, they go very well together.

[AstroRadar]

@zunaic: my pleasure..., greetings from Bogotá.

[TheJman69er]

only 17,000 views!?

[mcjason11]

your a fucken idiot if your the 1st person to click dislike on this vid.

[NancyPharmacist]

سبحان الله

[borg386]

Nice job! And cool music too.

[1287566tes]

Amazing! Just to think how huge and vast our own galaxy is.....We are only one of billions most likely more!!