3D model of M87
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This is a Hubble Space Telescope photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87. A grid is overlayed to trace out its three-dimensional shape. This was gleaned from meticulous observations made with the Hubble and Keck telescopes. Because the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to employ stereoscopic vision, they instead followed the motion of stars around the center of M87, like bees around a hive. This created a three-dimensional view of how stars are distributed within the galaxy.
ANIMATION: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
3D MODEL: Frank Summers (STScI)
SCIENCE: Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)
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Well that was a bit anticlimactic
@Simp_Zone
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😂
@jiajiaoioi
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not really
@Yesica1993
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For real. I want my 37 seconds back.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Not really.
@madrandomize5115
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@@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx you have to admit... It was a little bit.
Hubble is like an old grandpa that still has some moves! lessgoo!
Wow, did you reactivated a computer from the 80s for that 3d modell?
@Simp_Zone
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Nasa isn't getting the same budget they used to so they had to use an old amiga to render it.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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I don't think so...
Fabulous!
M87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy, I think, a really massive central supermassive black hole - something like 40 billion solar masses. But its noticeable cause of long linear feature - a very energetic emission, laser like. But I don't see it on this video.?? Its vaguely there, at the beginning. As somebody else said, anticlimactic
@stuartpaulandrews
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M87 is the cD galaxy of the Virgo cluster. The current estimate for the mass of its central black hole is 5.7 billion solar masses. By contrast the central black hole in our own galaxy weighs in at just 4.1 million solar masses.
@matgeezer2094
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@@stuartpaulandrews ohh, that's quite a significant difference! Thanks for the reply
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Yep.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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It is not necessarily anticlimactic.
Wonderful! ❤
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Very true.
What seems even more amazing to me is that 100 years we couldn't even agree how far away these faint smudges of light were. The view we have today would have given even the most enlightened of that era the urge to scream "WITCHCRAFT".
Is it the Black Hole?
@Marcell_Kovacs
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No, ut's the whole galaxy around it.
@thomasgoodwin2648
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Technically yes, but it only occupies (Fermi guesstimate) the innermost 0.00001% of the image and is somewhat blocked by the overexposure of the foreground stars. (Apologies for being so pedantic, but I unfortunately I have this have this weird medical condition that occasionally overcomes my will and causes me to turn into a smartass😉)
@AngoNL035SD
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It do have a huge one in the center!?!
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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No.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Yes, but this video is for the entire galaxy.
Careful or your 3d graphics team might get poached by Marvel!
Nice video.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Agreed.
What?
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Messier 87 is a giant elliptical galaxy in the direction of the constellation Virgo. It is located inside the Virgo cluster of galaxies. This galaxy is notable for being large, having a jet of matter spewing from the central black hole, whose image was the first of such an object. This is a wonderful 3d model of the galaxy. Before you think I am an astronomer, I am not one, I just read and study a whole lot.
@thomasgoodwin2648
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Who, why, where, and when. Keep at it! You're already a 5th of the way towards your Journalism merit badge.
@thomasgoodwin2648
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@@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx The only bit I would contest is that if you have ever gazed upon the heavens in wonder, and studied them in any way to know more, you ARE an astronomer. Science isn't an occupation, it's a lifestyle.
@crispycritter7022
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@@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Thank you! You are my hero! 🦸♂️
@crispycritter7022
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@@thomasgoodwin2648 you sure are committed at it boy. Don't tell everyone what I'm doing.
'Promosm' 💔
Is this a late April fool's joke? As anyone with a brain could deduce without an "illustration", it's the same from any angle. 😂🤡
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Except the galaxy is oriented in a certain way, and thus It cannot look the same from all directions. The jet is also oriented in a specific way.
@stuartpaulandrews
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Except it’s not as it’s a triaxial shape.
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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True.
It's just a smudge with a rotating grid on it. A complete waste of time.
@keybutnolock
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😁
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
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Just no.