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Exploring the Milky Way Galaxy
Take a space walk through the Milky Way galaxy, our home in the vast universe. Exploring the origins of its name and the concept of galaxies, the video delves into the size, shape, and composition of the Milky Way. It also highlights the...
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Milky Way Galaxy/Milky Way
Learn about our Milky Way Galaxy with this fun educational music video and parents. Brought to you by KLT. Don't forget to sing along.
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Stars /UY Scuti Stars/Largest Star in the Milky Way Galaxy
Learn about the largest star in the Milky Way Galaxy, UY Scuti First cataloged in 1860 by German astronomers at Bonn Observatory. UY Scuti is the 38th Variable Star of the Constellation Scutum. Educate yourself with this amazing and fun...
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Meet the Milky Way's Last Big Meal: The Sausage Galaxy
Our Milky Way Galaxy once dined on the Sausage Galaxy, and Jupiter's auroras seem to be heavily influenced by one of its moons. It's a galaxy-eat-galaxy kind of universe out there!
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There's another Milky way out there
As a species, we like to think everything about us is one of a kind, including the Milky Way Galaxy, but new evidence shows that yet again, we're not so unique.
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The Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
Now that we've learned about the first ten billion years in the development of the universe, it's time to get a little more specific to our own species. We live in a galaxy called The Milky Way. When did it form, and how? Where is it...
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Explainer: How the Sagittarius galaxy has affected the formation of the Milky Way
A new study published shows the effects of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy on the formation of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Galactic collision may have given rise to Milky Way’s warped shape
The European Space Agency’s space observatory Gaia may have found an explanation for the warped shape of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is bent into an S shape.
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Dark Matter is Slowing Down the Milky Way
The effects of dark matter on galaxies is a mystifying and difficult thing to study, but the Milky Way's galactic bar might present an exciting way to quantify how much of it exists!
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3 Ways the Milky Way Will Change During Your Lifetime
It’s easy to imagine that our galaxy is basically frozen in time from the perspective of a human lifespan, but in fact, the Milky Way is incredibly dynamic and will undergo some pretty amazing changes in only a few decades!
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The Milky Way Broke Its Arm
The spiral of the Milky Way is not as smooth as we once thought because an arm not so far from home appears to be broken! And we may have discovered the answer to why a local asteroid puts on the appearance of a comet.
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The Solar System: Structure, Orbits, and Location in the Milky Way Galaxy
This video provides a detailed overview of the structure and location of our solar system, including the orbits of different celestial bodies and the gravitational forces that keep them in place. It also explores the location of our...
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How to Kill a Galaxy
Our Milky Way galaxy is alive and well, producing new stars all the time. But there’s another group of galaxies out there, populated only by venerable red dwarf stars - the young stars are nowhere to be seen. In effect, these galaxies...
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The Amazing Universe: Galaxies
This show explores the fascinating features of the universe, the different types of galaxies in our solar system and the position of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other terminology includes: constellations, spiral galaxy,...
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Was the Milky Way a Quasar?
The Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm by the destructive standards of the rest of the Universe, and compared to its own very violent past. But just recently we discovered that its violent past was much more recent than we thought - and...
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Exploring Galaxies: A Journey Through the Milky Way and Beyond
Explore the fascinating world of galaxies in this engaging video transcript. Discover how galaxies are comprised of gas, dust, and billions of stars, with our own Milky Way Galaxy boasting over 100 billion stars. Learn about the...
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How Did the Milky Way Get Its Spiral?
Most galaxies that we know of are spirals, including the Milky Way, but how do they form and keep their shape over billions of years?
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The Milky Way
Today we’re talking about our galactic neighborhood: The Milky Way. It’s a disk galaxy, a collection of dust, gas, and hundreds of billions of stars, with the Sun located about halfway out from the center. The disk has grand spiral...
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3 Things We Still Don’t Understand About the Milky Way
We have been studying our home galaxy for years, but even though astronomy has come a long way, there is still a lot we don't know about the Milky Way.
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The Milky Way's Black Hole Burped 3.5 Million Years Ago
The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is quiet now, but new evidence suggests that it woke up around 3.5 million years ago. And Enceladus may have the the building blocks of the building blocks of life.
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The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses?
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How Do We Know What the Milky Way Looks Like?
How do we know what the Milky Way looks like if we've never been outside of it?
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Hubble Trivia: 9) Hubble Has Helped Confirm That the Milky Way Will Merge With Which Nearby Galaxy?
The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the secrets of the universe for over 30 years, but it turns out Hubble has some secrets of its own! The question is: Hubble has helped confirm that the Milky Way will merge with which nearby...