Finding The Black Hole Sagitarrius A Using Manual Navigation - Space Engine Challenge

[@nba_dae1128]

Sagittarius A: I am the largest thing in my galaxy Betelgeuse, VY Canis Majoris, and UY Scuti: Allow us to introduce ourselves

[@robinchesterfield42]

I knew you could do it! Took a bit, but, hey, I'd probably take WAY long to find it myself. :P I especially love when you throw in whatever you just saw into the middle of your sentence without missing a beat, like "Now that we're in the center of the galaxy, we can look at stuff like--whatever THIS thing is!" (sudden random nebula). XD I don't know why, that just cracked me up. Also trying to figure out Saggitarius A's gender. (laugh)

[@mystisch3241]

"Trying to find a Needle in a Haystack of Needles.. Basically its close to impossible." Theres a Needle everywhere in that Haystack of Needles.

[@debjanibhattacharya3777]

a specific needle u dumbass

[@mystisch3241]

Ah. There wasnt a need for dumbass since i didnt knoww now is there

[@GalyTheSugarLover]

I saw Sgt A like 3 times I think I was like ANTON!!!!!!!!!!! YOU JUST PASSED IT If you saw that anton passed a flash light with blue light and orange light YOU SAW SGT A

[@davidhkrose]

lol

[@MilanMilan0000]

ikr

[@dagrox2562]

Yeah I saw that blue and orange flash a minute before I posted this.

[@RastaPilot737]

you normally turn clusters off?? that´s the easy way , the big center star cluster

[@abhinav.robinson]

exactly

[@RetroOkamii]

Yeah, I was wondering the same, I have them enabled on my client and I was able to find it in a matter of seconds. I sent him a response video of how easy it actually is.

[@ashishTechieanand]

hey anton, love from india....can you make a video in which you explain how to visualise right ascension and declination of a star standing at surface of earth? i read it in my astronomy class with set of definition but hard to visualise in a night sky

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

I've done this before and it would probably take me 2 minutes to do, because of the magnitude of the black hole being so low.

[@amusix8386]

Why is there no clusters?

[@GalyTheSugarLover]

To make it more challenge it will be too easy

[@eriklagergren7124]

Is IC1101 too far away or could you try to found it?

[@Ddrenzo]

point at earth and back up 28.00 klys :)

[@KeanKennedy]

Cool. I feel like if you could move this fast in space you could always find it reasonably quickly though, even without time sped up or distance to Earth noted. And by reasonably quickly I mean hours, days, maybe even weeks, but not years. Random thought- darting around at higher than light speed like this, I guess you could pass in front of a distant star, then move a little farther away and check out the shadow you cast doing it. something to do if you get bored of searching for the day. lol

[@clark1066]

Love the videos. I am incredibly fascinated by stuff like this and being able to see it through video games helps a lot.

[@NachosMachos]

anton is so nice made me feel good with his intro

[@thetimelords911]

You have star clusters disabled. That's why you were having troubles. Or did you purposely turn that off? Sorry I was skipping the first part to where you started looking.

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

Did anyone else let out a gasp/cheer of surprise when he found it? I saw it and yelled "OH SHIT" really loud

[@hughjorgan6160]

What computer programme are you using ?

[@tdcsguy]

How large is the accretion disk around Sgr A*? Google says the diameter of its event horizon is 14 million miles, or about .15 AU, and I think I read somewhere that its accretion disk is about 3000× that size, or 450 AU, which would be 9-12× farther out than Pluto from the Sun. Imagine that... Can anyone confirm that ballparking?

[@Zeus_Aegiochos]

Here's a tougher challenge: Can you find the Milky Way, if your starting point is the edge of the observable universe?

[@heismagnified5950]

You should create planets in Universe Sandbox 2 from Space Engine, plz do!

[@stagemn]

You should do a video on Betelgeuse and Red Giants. Why some stars don't go to the red giant phase and why others do.

[@robinchesterfield42]

Basically, as I understand it, it's down to the star's original size. Smallish-medium sized stars, like our Sun, will go red giant, then the center will become a very small, very dense white dwarf. Stars that start out larger will explode as a supernova while the center squishes down into an even smaller and denser neutron star, and REALLY big stars explode in _hyper_novas and leave behind the ultimate in small and density--black holes. Also, some stars GET huge when they die, and others START huge. Like, blue supergiants. Rigel must still be a fairly new star 'cos it's so hot, but it's gigantic. Not as big as Betelgeuse, but... Meanwhile, what do the stars _smaller_ than our sun, aka mainly red dwarfs, do when they die? We don't know because _none of them have died yet_. It's estimated that they might be able to live TRILLIONS of years. That's trillion with a T. The universe itself is "only" around 13.6 _billion_. If you wanna invest in _really_ long-term real estate, put your planet around one of those!

[@tobiascasco]

(My english is bad) Antón for what the nebula is darcknes (translate this please ) si está en el centro de la galaxia. (is sphanish) tanks

[@tobiascasco]

the Stars in the centre no iluminate the nebula?

[@lucsei]

Eso es porque ese tipo de nebulosas absorben la mayor parte de la luz a su alrededor en lugar de reflejarla/That's because that kind of nebula absorbs most of the light around it instead of reflecting it.

[@tobiascasco]

+Sandshrew Gracias por aclararme la duda :)

[@kingofgoldnessr9364]

+Tobias .C El nebula esta oscuro porque las gases estan muy concentradas.

[@Abdullah-dc9wq]

what was that black spot at the beginning of the video

[@captainlag3537]

A nebula

[@petehenderson668]

Try doing UY Scuti. I've tried it at least eight times and failed.

[@CesareVesdani]

Most of the Sagittarius A stars are blue.

[@scienceinsociety3099]

And the Sagittarius A system looks like a star cluster when you run time slowly

[@blanjipan4484]

Last time I was this early, presidential debates weren't jokes.

[@thatguyrandomly460]

Last time I was this early Hillary Clinton wasn't winning.

[@shoumikadhikary9193]

last time i was this early, These jokes didn't exist.

[@abhinav.robinson]

+CrASH last time I was this early....these comments didn't exist.

[@stagemn]

Navigate using geometry. Bearings to obvious galaxies and prominent gas clouds.

[@capofigo]

Yesterday i was flying in this game and i have found a Galaxy that has White dust and in the center of it Space was White. I wonder if there are intelligent life forms there, thinking that Space is not Black but White. Do exist Places in the universe where Space looks Green or Red or even Pink, or every color else or even multicolor?

[@Olivia-ot6up]

Probably not, because those parts are dust. Maybe a dull red is the brightest color you'd get in a super old galaxy, but I don't know.

[@aav56]

It's possible to have a planet inside a nebula, then the sky can have some pretty amazing colours

[@yusoup174]

great vid...!

[@yeahman5551]

You should do more vlogs

[@aav56]

Why are clusters off? If they're on, just dive in from outside the galaxy and you fin it in 10 seconds...

[@secretsecret1084]

To make it more challanging

[@SCHenry1998]

u should try to seek what would happen if all the astroids in the belt were combined into one planet and terraform it in universe sandbox

[@burakdursun1336]

he did it

[@Sam-oz8pn]

basically Ceres*3, pretty small

[@thebestguedekelian9032]

So that little black hole attracts all of the stars???!!!

[@UpheavaI]

its so much denser than the sun. gravity fucks everthing

[@SGE_scharfe]

Challenge : Find our earth but you are in a other galaxy xD

[@Ddrenzo]

cool video btw

[@TypeZeta2]

I challenge you to find Eta Carinae without any aide

[@meepster554]

Now find the center of the universe

[@RetroOkamii]

That wouldn't be impossible actually! At least not impossible to find the center of the observable universe in the game, you can go to the edge where it's just black and no galaxies render, calculate the circumference and find the center based off that, after doing a ton of napkin math to find the center point of the circumference you'll find out Space Engine actually hid something rather amazing in the center of the universe on their game! It's a life baring planet that actually has city lights at night time and orbits in the safe region from it's parent star! It's called Earth. ;)

[@Sam-oz8pn]

The center of the observable universe is just your eyes

[@meepster554]

***** Yup, was wondering who was going to point that out. It would be weird to see what is there. I predict a giant apple of hydrogen

[@RetroOkamii]

Yeah but sadly they didn't put my eyes in the game, instead they just put a big dumb blue rock in approximately the same area my eyes would be. :(

[@Sam-oz8pn]

***** :( Agreed ): Notice the parentheses

[@PPKFTAL]

I tried the challenge, i flew into the center of the galaxy flew into the first cluster i saw and clicked it and it said milky way i zoomed in and saw Sagitarrius A lol

[@iShinyStar]

great vid :)

[@maybach5787]

please make more no mans sky its awesome

[@grundox4563]

if you leave the galaxy, then look at the center and approach it, it would be way easier

[@nathanbouzane3810]

Question: could you plug a black hole the size of a coin with your finger

[@panther8580]

No, the hole would die immediately of a second. Hawking radiation would kill it immediately. You would fall into the black hole, but be cut off, so you'd be half a person.

[@GumbaverianX]

Do you guys still remember Spore? (2008 Video Game)

[@secretsecret1084]

Yes

[@milehighgenisis7872]

well there is a bug that the dev said Sagatarious A* is not at the very center of the galaxy

[@ironiccookies2320]

Find the milky way from the edge of the universe

[@zockmate3860]

Ironic Cookies and where is the edge of the universe?

[@ironiccookies2320]

+Zock Animations in Space Engine the edge is about 20 billion light years from the Milky Way. Anton did a video about it

[@blurredgreyalien]

absolutely at 28 kly from earth

[@TheApartment839]

Select a galaxy then press Ctrl+G. you will find a blackhole.

[@SUPABROS]

Anton Sgt A. Is 24 kly Away From earth

[@SCHenry1998]

seek error see

[@CharlieVane21]

is Sag A real? Or just some sort of theory?

[@finisterre2415]

It's real. We saw it in action :)

[@secretsecret1084]

+J Gaming More like detected the effects we can't really see it from here ,)

[@orpheus0108]

+Secret Secret soon maybe. look it up. they are working on a way to see it :0

[@JoaoVitor-gm2yf]

third.... again

[@cyan1294]

second

[@laikaaerospace6858]

Wow first lol