Find a Galaxy

[@midaztouch]

I can't believe it!!! I just saw it!!!! I actually gasped in disbelief. It was breathtaking. It was probably the closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had. Mind blowing. Thank you so much. I want to tell everybody about it.

[@marellamofo]

It's a shame that we have so much light pollution. The last time that I saw the night sky lit up with thousands of stars was the early morning of the Northridge earthquake. The quake knocked every single light coming from homes, buildings, billboards you name it it was out and all I remember me and my neighbors doing was looking up at the sky. There were little kids who had never ever seen what a night sky actually looks like. That's sad. I say the entire world should go black once a year .

[@ronaldcheng1857]

I was able to locate the Andromeda Galaxy, with the help of my binoculars and star map, last November of this past year (2012) despite living near an urban area. I saw it through my binoculars more than once just to confirm it was really M31. Although the galaxy appeared just as a faint glowing smudge from where I am, I was thrilled that I was peering at a celestial body as how it looked 2.5 million years ago.

[@motormusic1]

So if aliens in another galaxy looks to the earth they'd see it as it was 2.5 million years ago? Thats probably why they wouldn't bother

[@GHLIII]

What gets me when you look at M31 is that you can be certain somebody's looking back at you.

[@Gforcebond]

i live in chicago and the only thing i can see is the north star and the moon. I remember when i was a kid my family went on vacation to eagle river-northern wisconsin. I can remember seeing literally thousands of stars and the most amazing thing was actually seeing the milky way galaxy itself the waves of bands of our spiral galaxy. If anybody has seen it it's the most amazing thing. I just took a trip up to wisconsin this year and u can no longer see the milky way galaxy or as many stars :(

[@YouSirAreNoob]

This helped me find Andromeda for the first time tonight :) Thanks so much

[@DuncanLafayette]

Thank you so much for the video! It has helped me dispel some doubts with regard to the position of Andromeda galaxy. Now everything is clear.

[@Grymligast]

Billions of galaxies... And how many do we even know about? It's mind blowing.

[@maksphoto78]

Great video. I find the Andromeda easily, by tracing a line from the V of Cassiopeia to the fairly bright star, then move a bit back to Cas to see a fainter star nearby, and another faint star that's slightly to the side. The faint smudge of light that's the Andromeda sits there, like someone's been painting with white paint and accidentaly left a smudgy thumb print.

[@85kanuto]

Thanks! Now I can find Andromeda what I'm searching some years. Great thanks!

[@thepianolover4ever]

i loved this. its so interesting and amazing. i just expanded my intelligence. thank you

[@twokn]

itss well goodd i read in iths book that andromeda actually stretches 5 moon diameters across the sky i wonder if you were out in the middle of nowhere would you be able to see it with just your eye?? this stuffs mind blowing for me

[@DuncanLafayette]

Thank you so much for this great video! It has helped me dispel some doubts that I had with regard to the position of Andromeda galaxy.

[@InfidelAntichristian]

If the milky way rotates in a clockwise motion did that have any effect on which direction the clocks turn? or just a coincidence that maybe something beyond our understanding influenced us to choose that direction for the hands to rotate?

[@merakli07]

Thanks for this very informative video. Well explained.

[@ryman0595]

Space is woven like a blanket and were are just a thread.

[@MrChristian326]

Very interesting. Having a good pair of binoculars really helps.

[@jannexorz]

thanks for the vid! Funny to see it with my own eyes :) With binoculars it looked pretty dim but was worth to locate :)

[@sexkinger]

hey umm, may i ask you approx. how much magnification do you need to clearly see even the eyes of the person at 50m?

[@dgleason2]

thank you very much! these videos r so helpful!

[@invunable]

One word: Amazing. I myself have tried to use my telescope in my backyard, and all the times I have never been able to find M31. Invun P.S. Isn't this Galaxy a Galaxy that collided with another one a few years ago? I am not sure if it was M31 or M37.

[@kevman5]

if you know where its at you can see the dim light from it with your bare eye. also you can spot the whirlpool galaxy with binoculars. it's a bit down from andromeda (when facing east at this time of year) and much much more faint.

[@gliderrider]

Thanks to this video, I saw my first galaxy last night! Just a speck that wouldn't focus. Took forever to find it. Later when the moon was up, I found I could go right to it in a minute. 10" Dobsonian on order!

[@aarn321]

It's amazing how far away galaxies are, if the sun were a period on a piece of paper, our milky way would be the continental US. And we are looking at objects of rival and greater sizes so far away that our eye only sees the closest one as a blurry spec.

[@felsner1]

Thanks for this, man. Very useful!

[@HuskeHardcore]

I know that underneath the dipper and to an angle back towards the dipper is the whirlpool galaxy. I also think that the pin wheel galaxy is somewhere in ursa major, aka the big dipper

[@Inolbod]

Thank you for this contribute, it is use useful indeed.

[@caste2510]

Its okay to ask! well... A galaxy is a colossal rotating clump of stars, planets, gas and cosmic dust in space containing BILLIONS of Stars (suns). Our galaxy in which our solar system resides is named "the milky way" and is estimated to contain over 300 billions of stars!!!! our sun, earth and solar system are located in a spiral arm of the milky way. Estimations indicate that there are around 500 billion other galaxies in in the universe

[@TitoTheThird]

While civilizations may be rare in this corner of the Universe we are in, life may be relatively common. Looking at the Andromeda Galaxy, what fascinates me is that you are looking at an object that -- with great probability -- contains life (among the billions of stars within it).

[@makaronake]

So Andromeda is located 9.460.800.000.000 km away from Earth...I guess I should get going, then.

[@joeelipo]

Thanks for your great information. Great video.

[@doyoulookup]

@marevangel88 If you are using binoculars, Andromeda will look faint. A number of things will influence how faint/bright it will be. Light pollution is a major factor--human light pollution and light from the Moon. From my home, Andromeda looks faint through my binoculars--a small smudge that could be easily missed. In the summer, at the lake where the light pollution is considerably less, Andromeda is brighter and the spread of it is obvious. The difference is dramatic.

[@waynesan31]

Thank you so much for this video. I've been trying to find Andromeda in the sky, but now I know how to. Hoping it's a clear night tonight.

[@GunShard]

I found Andromeda with binoculars before I saw this video, it looks like a blue fuss. To see celestial objects clearly, go outside at midnight, which is the opposite end of the sun, so the sky is at it's clearest.

[@zeratul575]

when i get older my wonder will naver stray i like thos guy

[@Tokaisho1]

Billions of galaxies? How can we determine that? It could be infinite, light just isn't powerful enough to reach us beyond the point we have seen them. It's mind boggling.

[@pclover]

I am going to have to try this on a clear night. Great video

[@Gururajmysuru]

Thanks a lot, i knew that we can see it with naked eye, but i didn't know where is it, now i found it. using 80mm small telescope i saw it. when i was seeing at billions of stars together, i can't explain what i felt !!!!!!!

[@dvamateur]

I like binoculars, such an amazing piece of optical instrument.

[@Rfsancho]

@remix111able Galaxies are there to entertain the curious human race until extinction. That's pretty much it.

[@qwerty2000000]

when you said you use starry night, i was taking my starry night discs out of the box...

[@tsdz2008]

wonderful. you are one of the greatest scientist in our galaxy system. and i am a high school student! lol

[@Maekiii]

Nice vid I'm trying tonight to find it with my 8-20x50 binoculars : )

[@StillC1020]

Absolutely, life and probably billions of civilizations are out there however, many could have developed and then imploded, even the Greek civilization was only around for a few thousand years before it fell. So, we would have to find civilizations at exactly the same point in their development that we are...language? mathematics? computers? or more likely WAY ahead of us & maybe waiting for us to catch up! Think of the possibilities!

[@SirStringBean]

what if I cant see that constellation because im in the southern hemisphere

[@cmsahe]

You can see the Virgo Galaxy cluster with binoculars too. 60 million lightyears away from us.

[@alliahmanguiat28]

yeah your right same of a galaxy's spiral,elliptical,irregular......is that right?

[@gretchenremington]

wow-this is magnificent-THX a great deal!:)

[@mralanv]

has anyone who lives in england been able to see the milky way in a clear sky? coz where I live in Leeds it's practically impossible to see it.

[@Obama4Prezz]

@remix111able U need to check what a galaxy is on wikipedia or something. or just type galaxies in the youtube search engine. It's basically a collection of matter all held together by gravity; in them u can expect to find 200-400 billion stars! crazy huh!

[@darkalien54]

well, the light we are receiving from Andromeda is 2.5 million years old, give or take a few years, so I'd say no since Dinosaurs were here around 64 million years ago.

[@citycentregreen]

great vid. good knowledge

[@agentgta007]

i have 10x30 binoculars, are they good.

[@marevangel88]

I'm not sure if I'm seeing it yet because it looks so faint. I know I'm looking in the correct spot. Does it look faint to the rest of you?? (I'm in SoCal)

[@motormusic1]

Wow... we all busy around with our lives, worrying about bills and taxes when all this is floating around above us......

[@huntsman1230]

everything is just so huge... i was just upset about not getting my way over somethng dumb about 5 minutes ago... now, its like who cares. what a wonderful place, space

[@TheShadyFro]

Man seing how big the universe actually is, it makes life look small and pointless.

[@imanoob4]

Wow i own a 15x70 and m31 is going to look huge then!

[@cazz8017]

wow,,, i never thought of that,, i guess so!! creepy eh

[@specter290]

your so cool man thx for uploading this vid

[@AbiliTV]

EXCELLENT Video. :)

[@pithikoulis]

I love your videos :)

[@Haruchan1996]

The universe is endless... endless possibilities... endless number of galaxies.... endless number of stars and planets.... too many light years for the human race to find them all. Why are we even bothering?ಠ_ಠ

[@ivancecil80]

awesome videos

[@MrVENGAA]

i wonder if there real human people out there

[@HelioVO]

there are so many galaxies...Certainly we are not alone in the universe !

[@MrQung]

how they know its a galaxy they have not be there its are maybe just a star ?

[@Tokaisho1]

Brilliant video. :D

[@Tommyrazor]

It is sad, with how much pollution there is now, you probably can't see it anymore.

[@masterjamie9]

on that picture you actualy can see the andromeda galaxy with naked eye, but recognizing is another story :P

[@Scimmy75]

Wow tou thihnk earth is big yet so small an tiny tho so fortunate

[@saxabass]

A billion + galaxies with trillions of stars in each one....... my head hurts.

[@messierthirtyone]

great vid. light pollution sucks though, i use 15x70's and barely found it...

[@blobrana]

Good upload

[@caste2510]

good point =)

[@Muirselgas]

Anything you look at in the sky you are looking at back in time even the sun. About 4 sec ago

[@remix111able]

what is galaxy?what does it do?what is the point of galaxy? i know it's sound stupid but.......plz

[@SonLastName]

space is such a big place .

[@messierthirtyone]

I use 15 x 70 's and barely found it. Heard it can be seen eye-naked....

[@jammin18stacy]

do you think ill see it in Washington ?

[@JPHET37]

Wow there are billions of galaxies out there i can bet my life we are not alone. I'm 99% sure there are other planets like Earth but no evidence or radio waves to pick up since we godzillion light years apart. Only our spirits will take us there..in a blink of an eye...like being reborn into a next life

[@Jameslikespudding]

you know what? the hila people work at my school and teach me and my class from time to time 8D

[@GOOSEBUMPS1011]

hi M31 : )

[@SatansFloater]

cool video

[@thefatha]

I think there must be intelligent life in other galaxies but they are to away to reach us....

[@GoodOrion2113]

How compelling.

[@OvErTrAiNiNg007]

WOW!!!

[@vleesevlons]

This is the closets Galaxy too.

[@Bbustos1124]

were not alone

[@wefiyhigh56]

i saw it with my 10x50 binoculars

[@anonymousstormchaser]

but you have NO idea how big the universe is.

[@Nathan2002B]

of course andromeda (M31) is easy to find because its the nearest galaxy

[@VWayyyyyyyy]

We aren't!! XD

[@messierthirtyone]

well actulally andromeda may have vanished 2.499.999 years ago and you cand still see it :)