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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  • @madrandomize5115
    @madrandomize5115 Жыл бұрын

    Well that was a bit anticlimactic

  • @Simp_Zone

    @Simp_Zone

    Жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @jiajiaoioi

    @jiajiaoioi

    Жыл бұрын

    not really

  • @Yesica1993

    @Yesica1993

    Жыл бұрын

    For real. I want my 37 seconds back.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    Not really.

  • @madrandomize5115

    @madrandomize5115

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx you have to admit... It was a little bit.

  • @Mrfailstandstil
    @Mrfailstandstil Жыл бұрын

    Hubble is like an old grandpa that still has some moves! lessgoo!

  • @d3vilfish80
    @d3vilfish80 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, did you reactivated a computer from the 80s for that 3d modell?

  • @Simp_Zone

    @Simp_Zone

    Жыл бұрын

    Nasa isn't getting the same budget they used to so they had to use an old amiga to render it.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't think so...

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Жыл бұрын

    Fabulous!

  • @matgeezer2094
    @matgeezer2094 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @stuartpaulandrews

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @matgeezer2094

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stuartpaulandrews ohh, that's quite a significant difference! Thanks for the reply

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    It is not necessarily anticlimactic.

  • @JohnStopman
    @JohnStopman Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! ❤

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    Very true.

  • @thomasgoodwin2648
    @thomasgoodwin2648 Жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @AbdurRehman-jw9lc
    @AbdurRehman-jw9lc Жыл бұрын

    Is it the Black Hole?

  • @Marcell_Kovacs

    @Marcell_Kovacs

    Жыл бұрын

    No, ut's the whole galaxy around it.

  • @thomasgoodwin2648

    @thomasgoodwin2648

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @AngoNL035SD

    Жыл бұрын

    It do have a huge one in the center!?!

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, but this video is for the entire galaxy.

  • @Simp_Zone
    @Simp_Zone Жыл бұрын

    Careful or your 3d graphics team might get poached by Marvel!

  • @TundeEszlari
    @TundeEszlari Жыл бұрын

    Nice video.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @crispycritter7022
    @crispycritter7022 Жыл бұрын

    What?

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @thomasgoodwin2648

    Жыл бұрын

    Who, why, where, and when. Keep at it! You're already a 5th of the way towards your Journalism merit badge.

  • @thomasgoodwin2648

    @thomasgoodwin2648

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @crispycritter7022

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Thank you! You are my hero! 🦸‍♂️

  • @crispycritter7022

    @crispycritter7022

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thomasgoodwin2648 you sure are committed at it boy. Don't tell everyone what I'm doing.

  • @muckerwood
    @muckerwood Жыл бұрын

    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

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @stuartpaulandrews

    Жыл бұрын

    Except it’s not as it’s a triaxial shape.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    True.

  • @nataliequintin9378
    @nataliequintin9378 Жыл бұрын

    'Promosm' 💔

  • @terratec1001
    @terratec1001 Жыл бұрын

    It's just a smudge with a rotating grid on it. A complete waste of time.

  • @keybutnolock

    @keybutnolock

    Жыл бұрын

    😁

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx

    Жыл бұрын

    Just no.

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