Solar System or Galaxy or Universe? - SPACE(show)TIME
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What's the difference between the solar system, galaxy and universe? Earth is a part of a system of planets orbiting around the Sun. Our Solar System is just one of many planetary systems in an area called the Milky Way. The Milky way is just one of many many many many many many many many Galaxies in the known and unknown universe. The opinions in this video are my own. This is an independent FAN ART PROJECT utilizing public domain images and sound effects. * Planet Photos: NASA *Milky Way Galaxy: Mark A. Garlick * Universe: Pablo Budassi * Music: Kevin Macleod * Editor: April Eden * Mr. Universe: The Arnold * Dr. Noodle the Science Dog You got a Question? We got… FANswers!
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How about light pollution?
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You look remarkably similar to the UK songstress Cathy Dennis during her most successful early 90's period, an era that included hits such as "Touch Me (All Night Long)" and "C'mon And Get My Love". I'd be open to either of those suggestions, but failing that, any chance of you whistling the Star Trek theme (original series) in a future video? :)
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Before anyone else beats me to it. Yes, there are a LOT of things we could have gotten into. These are just the Solar System, Galaxy and Universe basics. I would love to do an episode all about other dimensions and theories and quanta. For now we started with these 2.5 minutes.
If there is something you would like me to expand, please question form your comment so I can have a base to make an episode about it.
Here are the notes I got from my day job boss. I found them very helpful in guiding what points to try to get across. . Here are the notes in full for my fellow space case heads.
NOTES - from the Doctor
The scale size change from solar system to galaxy is a huge step. The far outer edge of the Oort cloud of comets around our Sun could be 80,000 AU or about a light year out, maybe. That's sort of crazy, and you don't mention comets. Anyway, the disk of the Milky Way is somewhere roughly 100,000 light years across, or about 3 million AU. So, the Milky Way is a lot bigger than the solar system! If we use the furthest comets as our outer edge, it is 100,000 times bigger than our solar system! How many Noodles across is the Milky Way? That's a better question! Oh, also, the Milky Way has 200-400 billion solar systems! So that's a big step up in size, so maybe mention something you think can make that clearer. Or maybe that's getting too long. Just wait for the next paragraph!
Then, same thing for galaxies to universe. Looking away from us the dawn of time limits our view of the Universe. We literally run out of time to see more galaxies. Still, that bubble centered on us has a radius of 46.5 billion light years. That is 46.5 billion times larger than our solar system. It is also about a million (930,000) times bigger than the Milky Way's disk! I just calculated that, and am a little shocked. That is remarkable small to my mind. The little bit of the Universe that we can see is about a million times larger than our galaxy and it contains a few hundred billion galaxies. And that's just the bit we can see, it probably goes on a lot further, maybe forever!
OK, that is way too much to include, obviously, but you can take the information, add what you like. Honestly, depending on the age you are targeting for these, it could be fine as it is now. You do not want to give too much information to little kids, obviously. So, take what you like from what I wrote (or ask for more information?)
The ending, when you let yourself be a little less formal with the camera and presentation. It was fun and it showed you enjoy this stuff. Still, you were upstaged! Noodle is adorable! More Noodle! -
There are two more levels greater than the Universe, the Multiverse and the Omniverse.
The Multiverse is all those divergent universes parellel to ours which are comprised of similar physics to our own, and the Omniverse is the entirety of all multiverses that have separate physics to ours and their collection of parallel universes.
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