The Milky Way: Crash Course Astronomy #37

[@GMAd-yc1vj]

I Have no idea why but I like watching and learning stuff about astronomy

[@YourFaceGdDmit]

i think we like it because the topics are so huge and mind boggling. it dwarfs your own existence, thus also your troubles

[@ComsicQuestGG]

+YourFaceGdDmit not to mention the amazement of what is out in the infinitesimal universe.

[@chrishdman87]

+aaron mack LOL infinitesimal means small. Flip open the dictionary once in a while

[@PhilipPlait]

+Ace Striper I know why. Because it's awesome.

[@cortster12]

+Ace Striper Because nothing is more interesting than science.

[@crayzbotzz700]

So the spiral arms are giant traffic jams? I guess you can call it a: Space Jam

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+Dave E (Kaiserlardbottomthesecond) Somebody get this hothead outta here!

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+Dave E (Kaiserlardbottomthesecond) ....Get Out.

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+kallistiX1 "puts on sunglasses"

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+Dave E (Kaiserlardbottomthesecond) Noooooooo

[@DarthTribal]

Half of this goes over my head every episode but I still love it. Plus it gives me an excuse to keep re-watching them. :)

[@alejandrwesnin7805]

What distinguishes these videos is that the guy is not afraid to say "we don't know" something - so you get a bigger picture

[@oliviamercer2186]

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[@TheDKninja]

I love space and astronomy, but whenever I go outside at night and look up at the stars I sometimes get a deep feeling of anxiety and fear. Especially when I notice the Milky way. Like maybe I might fall into it or it could be the size of it all is overwhelming.

[@garethdean6382]

+Daemon Magister Go outside, lie down on your back on the grass with your arms and legs spread wide. Now you can imagine that the sky is below you and you're glued to the earth.

[@settratheimperishable4093]

@@garethdean6382 a bit late, but that exciting feeling where you see the absolute mass and depth of it all is just so exhilerating.

[@twelge15]

Now I understand spiral arms as traffic waves with stars traveling through them around the galaxy. Thanks Phil! You explained this better than anyone else has.

[@benaaronmusic]

Reminds me of a quote, "I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye"

[@technofenton]

These should have so many more views. So much information in a short period of time, but at a pace that's easily followed. Not to mention voiced by someone who is knowledgeable in the subject and pleasant to listen to. And that recap is helpful in retaining the most important parts! Love you, Phil!

[@DDM-Nerd]

I love this series. It makes me happy and able to better endure the trivial matters that concern many humans.

[@ChristianNeihart]

The universe is awesome.

[@SaDaGa-yj4hj]

I i'm a new subscriber and I love astronomy so your videos are the best also I might be the person who gos to the Moon

[@TheSkogemann]

+Christian Neihart True, and this series is awesome!

[@zachruhl6008]

+Christian Neihart It cant ever not be.

[@ComsicQuestGG]

+Zach ruhl tell me about it. I literally play the whole Playlist while I'm going to sleep, so it is the last thing I hear at night lol.

[@natepetersen1508]

+Christian Neihart correct!

[@bryanlynch-wells8823]

crash course astronomy has gradually grown on me and it has now become something I look forward to every week! Your enthusiasm for your subject makes it really engaging Phil, keep it up!

[@c.i.demann3069]

I friggin' love this entire series. The best thing Crash Course has done, I say.

[@nevar108]

I love this series! My 4 year old asks a billion questions after every vid... Awesome!

+nevar108 lol if your 4 year old keeps on watching these videos him/her will be a genius soon :D

[@brooksp1191]

+nevar108 I would also check out SciShow which is similar, both are very good.

[@UKscalemodeller]

same here, I so wish there had been stuff like this around when I was their age

[@Imponderabilia995]

+nevar108 great parenting right here :)

[@brooksp1191]

Another channel you could check out for your kid is Symphony of Science by melodysheep, its autotuned music videos which is really interesting and catchy.

[@drink15]

I was already strapped in. I can't strap in anymore!

[@davidk1308]

+drink15 Strap in tighter.

[@eggslicer2399]

+drink15 yes you can. extra strap in = more coming back to series

[@rlrsk8r1]

+drink15 Seat belts to maximum buckling.

[@drink15]

rlrsk8r1 lol, well done.

[@arthas640]

If you can't strap in, maybe you need to... *puts on sunglasses* ...strap-on. _Yeeeeeeah!_

[@MetaSynec]

0:46 I bet that bar in the middle of the galaxy is called 'The Way Station'!

[@cpob2013]

+Incongruent I you proud of yourself?

[@jaycie5021]

+Incongruent I No it's Milliways.

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

+Incongruent A Singularity Bar.

[@SanctuaryReintegrate]

+Incongruent I It's a delicious Milky Way bar.

[@headrockbeats]

+Incongruent I Gus's Galaxy Grill.

[@FPFPV]

3:27 I love animations like this one. Flying through the Milky Way's disk really does make every star look like a grain of sand.

[@brandonhall6084]

7:49 Hey, I can see my home from here!

[@diocletianaugustus1764]

Great video as always, Phil. You know a series is good when viewers are dreading that it's almost over.

[@kaleba5203]

Who else watches this series just for fun?

[@joshyboy82]

+Keta A versus: Learning? Work? Well, watching and not learning makes us all facepalm. Congrats. OR Watching this for work? You're an Astronomer, stop fucking around and get back to work. He summarizes complex space in 12 ish minutes, not spends a lifetime explaining what he learned at the moment. Yep, I used 'ish', because I'm not a scientist.

[@kaleba5203]

joshyboy82 wat

[@joshyboy82]

+Keta A Really? Ok, everyone.

[@PearsAreOk]

+joshyboy82 What a douchebag response

[@joshyboy82]

+CheekyScrubinator2000 what a dumb fucking question.

[@Umirua]

In Sweden we call it The Winter Road

[@fynngilbert281]

+IShallUseFire! I hear a lot of things about Sweden regarding the migrant crisis. Both positive and negative. Id like to know from you, as a Swede, what you think about the current migrant crisis. If its ok, of course.

[@Umirua]

Fynn Gilbert Well, considering our prime minister went out and said it himself (and he's the one who made the immigration to sweden so liberal) that we are reaching our capacity for how much we are getting into. I mean we are almost reaching 200 000 people that want asylum in sweden. We're a country of 10 million, and we're recieving almost 2% of our own population that is going to require homes (they are living in tent towns right now, and refugee houses are being burned down by god knows who, also winter is coming). By the way we are currently having a housing shortage, this flock of people, most of them being young men and are probably going to want their own homes if they are to live here permanently. Then we also have to find work for them, which we sort got shortage on too. And apparently we are also getting a lack on teachers so schools might get overfilled in a couple years. Now of course, these new immigrants can become new workers and we can start building with their help. But that is going to take time, because before they start working they are going to have to learn swedish and get housing. this stuff is going to take time, becuase we are having so many of them. Then we get to the hardest part: integration! That is the one thing sweden has failed at. We are having a sort of integration budget, which I think is the most stupid thing ever (except the part where they have to know swedish), because you can't make people integrate. Integration and assimilation is impossible to force onto, the only way to integrate people is by letting them be influenced by the ( in case swedish ) culture they live in. And that has to be done freely and might take a generation or two until it finally succeds. But with this many people coming at so large time they are most likely going to be concentrated at the same areas, (mainly where other syrians and refugees live). However this leaves them almost immune to integrate, because then they will only be influenced by their own culture. And by the way, refugee and immigrant ( most who come aren't even real refugees but ordinary immigrants ) thick sub-urban cultures aren't the prettiest. We have this area in stockholm called Rinkeby, ethnic swedes there are a minority and crime and drugs and gangs are flurishing there. There seems to have been a tendency for immigrants to become part of an ebonics-style gangster culture, I fear that several of these coming immigrants and refugees will sadly suffer the same fate ( and it is almost happening already in the refugee houses according to various sources ). So I'm very much against the refugee crisis since I don't think sweden will quite be able to manage it. And there's also that part of immigrants being segregated instead of integrated, I don't think we can solve that with more immigration, that will just make it worse. And we have reports that says many other immigrants and refugees are coming to sweden (and germany) because they are promised a better life style with A-class quality. But when these kind of refugees and immigrants come and see how it really is they whine like spoiled children. While there are real refugees, example those in the neighboring countries like Liberia, Egypt and so on, are filled up with a lot more refugees than those that are migrating to sweden and germany right now. We should be helping them instead rather than trying to just help these few procent that took the foolish way of travelling an entire contintent thinking they can get a way better life-style. TL:DR I think we should stop the immigration right now and start tending for the ones that are already here. Also we have to build homes. A LOT of homes! Because coming winter, how many of these people from the central middle-east are going to suffer because they have no where to stay when the cold reaches -5 degrees celsius?

[@fynngilbert281]

IShallUseFire! Thank you very much on this insight. I feel much like you, being from germany myself. But honestly, i am even more critical. From most real Refugees (Syrians, Afghans) i have heard that they soon want to return to their own countries after war is over. So i am pissed that all these other immigrants come and demand housing. They throw their passes away and say they are Syrians, just so they get free stuff. And then they dare to complain about bad internet access. Also, there is quite a difference in values between western secular democracies and the shariah dominated ideologies of these immigrants. When these people come into our countries where we value the equality of men and women, separation of church and state, and they don't want to integrate, then i am getting pissed.

[@Umirua]

Fynn Gilbert Eyup. There are these type of people, those who use the refugee crisis for their own good to live in a country they heard should give them free housing and contributions, those should get thrown out of the country immeadiatly. However it's hard to justifiably say who are who, making it hard to differ them both.

[@deividaskiznis906]

+IShallUseFire! In Lithuania we call it Birds Path

[@adamblair9240]

Phil, I really enjoy this program. You are a really great teacher and I hope you continue to make these Astrology videos.

[@creepernerd101]

Galaxologists. Greatest profession ever.

[@Atlas-pn6jv]

"Those who have knowledge of milk"

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[@Seryosin]

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[@JustThomas1]

+Aivars Priedītis creationists

[@dustinf49]

+Aivars Priedītis Flat Earthers

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+Thomas PlaysTheGames Right, I forgot I'm on this planet.

[@Kuzi19]

+Aivars Priedītis Flat Earthers or just h8ters

[@TheSkogemann]

+Aivars Priedītis Haha, yeah... xD

[@sinswept]

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[@aida_amore]

I could watch this channel 24/7 Absolutely fascinating!

[@TheFireflyGrave]

Since Galaxy translates to 'milky' would it be ok to refer to Galactus as 'The Milk Man?'

[@physchshipper8224]

This is a sciencitific learning about the milky way, you are making fun of the name Milky way galaxy. Dont you have sciencitific brain ? Or are you just here to be funny when you are NOT.

[@1C3CR34M]

@@physchshipper8224 can you stfu? This is why smart people get bullied, because of incels like you.

[@TheHelghast1138]

Yes

[@SzaboDTamas-ki4wu]

It must be hard to make up your mind about which piece of information you give to us from the vast field of astrophysics. Also making it so compressed and understandable for people must be a challenge. I applaud the writer!

[@nelsonadrianclyde11]

this series just gets better and better

[@joelshewmaker3567]

For a second, I thought that you were going to say that the wave was caused by a disturbance in the Force. Too much Star Wars recently. :p

[@frankschneider6156]

+Joel Shewmaker the arms are simply areas of higher density propagating in a circular way around the center of the galaxy. Higher density leads to increased formation of new stars (if there's still an abundant amount of gas), which results in the gas in this (high density area) shining brighter, so that you can "see" this area as arms.

[@Light-Love11]

Thank you Phil for these amazing videos. You are an awesome and captivating teacher.

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Thank you for being you Phil always a pleasure to watch.

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I love this. Host is great teacher.

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Wow! The universe is so amazing! I'm pretty sure I say or think that every day at least once.

[@erikziak1249]

Thank you Phil, I actually learned something new today. Also thanks to PBS for supporting this.

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Cramming for my Astronomy final exam. I told my professor, a doctor of astronomy himself, that I was worried about the final, but he said “you listen to Dr. Phil Plait? You’ll be fine.”

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I really really really hope they do a galactic supercluster episode

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I love how so many things in space are named after chocolate bars. 😏

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I want to take him, a chef, a philosopher, a physicist, and a bunch of other smart adventurous people on a giant FTL ship and just explore.

[@degzi]

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[@Matiburon04]

Ahh, the crushing sense of scale you get for a moment when trying to understand the size of the universe. Delightful.

[@leo33125]

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[@zimmn]

these videos are awesome! good thing the universe is huge so you don't have any excuses to not continue making them for ever!

[@appleipodtouch2g]

I just saw the milky way for the first time tonight and oh my god my life is forever changed.

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I'm frequently amazed by how much stuff in these videos I just never learned before.

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This is so interesting to learn about and I really love it!

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You guys are awesome. I would love to see a crash course philosophy

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I love this series and am immensely interested in Astronomy. I hope it doesn't end anytime soon.

[@frankschneider6156]

+Octane Nova1 Usually around Episode 48. Maybe it gets a second season like world history.

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I love this series so much.

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I love this course so much. Keep up the good work :)

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Great series. This sentient entity gives a thumbs up.

[@WMTeWu]

Thank you Phil for this episode!

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I love this channel! So helpful!

[@JJBLOOM]

I love what you guys are doing my school teachers would use your content to explain the lesson better Thanks a lot

[@Killbayne]

Imagine creatures on the Andromeda Galaxy looking at the Milky Way like "imagine life exists there somewhere"

[@bruinflight]

This guy is way too cool. I love his videos!

[@kingoftickets]

Another thing to think about... what we see further away is in the past thousands or more years ago. As shown in a Vsauce video, this is a pretty minor effect, but still sort of mindblowing as well.

[@dorukahraman]

In Turkey we call it the "Hay Road" (Hay as in the crop). Coolest show ever and been watching it since episode 1! 100% the reason I'll take Astronomy classes in college.

[@RedStefan]

The Milky Way is OK, but I prefer Sneakers.

[@zeusnitch]

+RedStefan Sneakers are Ok but I prefer flip flops

[@RedStefan]

+thedoctorzeus Yeah I misspelled Snickers, I realized after posting thouand couldn't find the post. Regarding sneakers vs flip flops I prefer sneaker almost everytime except on a beach.

[@crzycore9839]

I prefer mars

[@q2yogurt]

To be honest, being Galileo must've been helluva fun. Except, you know, the whole inquistion thing.

[@garethdean6382]

+yogurtovsky He had his fun alright. Publish a book laying out the arguments for and against heliocentricity? But what should we name the character that uses the Pope's arguments? Got it! Simplicio!

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

So excited for the galaxies episode next (even though I know that the Milky Way is a galaxy itself, where our star system is located). The topic I'm most fascinated by in Astronomy.

[@aryansoni9150]

Best Astronomy course ever.

[@marolibez]

Best Crash Course ever! You just have to love it :)

[@paulguastavino3222]

this series is balling

[@RachelUndercover]

These are so useful for my astro and cosmology module at uni

[@ffggddss]

Phil: Typo alert! Spotted from 7:27 - 7:31. "Milkywayolohist" "h" should be "g" - The Autonomic Proofreader And while I'm at it, thank you for reminding me again, why I'm an (amateur) astronomer! These are some of the most exciting & enjoyable videos in the KZbin Galaxy!!

[@NoEgg4u]

@5:22 I was with you, until the "traffic jam" analogy. I understand what you were trying to convey. But gravity does not work the way traffic jams work. With gravity, all of the cars would crash into each other. None of the cars have brakes. When the car in front slows down, the car behind it does not slow down. Rather, it speeds up, due to gravity pulling it into the car ahead of it. The "traffic jam" analogy gives the impression that stars slow down to avoid each other, while the laws of physics is the opposite (objects with mass are attracted to each other, and stars certainly have mass -- lots of mass). Cheers!

[@marcuspradas1037]

Excellent video, man. I'm a little bit sad, that every year seeing the Milky Way in its full splendor will be so much difficult due to light pollution.

[@Killbayne]

9:21 FYI, that Galaxy is appropriately named "Sombrero Galaxy"

[@TomBerzins]

Phil you are straight-up one of the greatest science communicators of the 21st century #gotgame

[@AllanFLFartes]

I really, REALLY love you guys.

[@npcKee]

i saw the milky way for the first time last week. i never realized how much sky i was missing with all the light pollution in the city, and then i spent the evening with a friend in the middle of nowhere. so many stars. so many.

[@edgregory1]

Mind crushingly great adjectives.

[@_Triangularity]

I made a grilled cheese sandwich today. It tasted pretty good.

[@appalacha7278]

nice

[@hellknight03]

Thank you Phil for this series this is awesome

[@teethgrinder83]

The size of the universe is just mind blowing-our galaxy is huge but nothing in the grand scheme of things. Crazy lol

[@mexadoy]

Excited for future episodes!!!!!

[@kateo4989]

Can't wait until the next episode!

[@byronprice5910]

Illuminating!!! Love this stuff!

[@bosernator18]

I wonder if, hypothetically speaking, our solar system were in one of those globular clusters in the halo, what would the Milky Way look like in the night sky then? Great episode! And that graphic you had from Hubble at 3:28 was spectacular!

[@J.ThalapathySriram]

I love you guys! You make all my failures seem insignificant!

[@JusDoc]

Y'all ought to make another poster for "The Galaxy" in addition to the one for "The Solar System." I would buy that one in a heartbeat too!

[@stanmitchell7891]

Wow, best episode to date! Keep up the good work.

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One small step for Subscribers, One giant leap for Crash Course - kind.

[@Slaphappy1975]

Can't wait for next week!

[@aussiebaka4588]

Can I just take a second to appreciate the music in these series'? Plz make a full length album. :P