Every time the problems of the people around me seem to overwhelm me, I go to KZread and watch videos about the universe. That helps me to bring everything back into perspective and calm down.

@edwardyankie6914

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. I unwind to astronomy vids almost every night. Really gives you a better sense of reality.

@anSealgair

4 жыл бұрын

It gives you a peace like nothing else. You can't get worked up over daily life here on earth. Most affairs and tasks become nothing.

The best vid ever made about astronomy ! Compliments Sir both for your clear explanation , the soft tone of your cultured voice and the civilised and not intrusive music in the background ! You deserve a 5 star award !

Observing the cosmos is definitely one of the most wonderful activities in this brief biological life.

@apachedr34

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, sir.

I just discovered this channel and I am thrilled. Too many space documentaries I watch are too flashy and uninformative. This is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

@AngryHateMusic

6 жыл бұрын

You should check out Thunderboltsproject. This is boring assumption compared to what they are doing.

I always wonder if some civilization in another galaxy like andromeda is looking back at our galaxy....wondering if anyone else is out there. Just like we are.

@done8140

2 жыл бұрын

U know it !

@amits7814

2 жыл бұрын

@@done8140 you can only wonder you cannot know

@Biscuit9891

2 жыл бұрын

No we are the only ones in the observable universe

@CrowT

2 жыл бұрын

@@Biscuit9891 I don't know how anyone could possibly know that. The observable universe is exponentially vast. As is our own galaxy.

@Drunrealer

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and what’s crazy is they woundt see any of us they’d still see dinosaurs and Pangea

This video is like a documentary, a lullaby, a symphony, a discreet KZread video, and a grandpa’s secret message all in one.

Big up to the camera man who floated threw space to film this

@hapymark123

4 жыл бұрын

Right

@adm1s905

4 жыл бұрын

Old joke

@dannyflint5746

4 жыл бұрын

Big up to the orchestra that went with him too 👏

@ayashin19

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannyflint5746 🤣

@54spatula

4 жыл бұрын

@Roger Abernathy no he meant the camera man that floated through space to film this.

David has great taste in music. His selections are some of my most favourite. I would often study with these selections playing in the background. This brings me back to the good days of going to school, and now I wish I had taken astronomy more seriously.

Our generation is so privileged. Within the last 100 years, we've seen things that countless generations before never could have dreamed of. There was so much beauty out there waiting to be appreciated. Thanks for this series!

@howfarawayisit

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I find it quite awe inspiring as well.

@cantelsoun3830

7 жыл бұрын

+David Butler you deserve 10 million subscribers. Excessive ability to document. You are an extremely brilliant and intelligent person. Its good to know that there are great minds like you out there. God bless

@ElektrikDunyam

6 жыл бұрын

Great mind which opens its doors for teaching everyone...

First time I ever left the city, walked out in the woods near the Pocono's, looked up at night, and wondered what planet I was on after seeing all those stars for the first time. Thank you for bringing back good memories.

I've watched all of your videos in this series but this one is by far my favorite. Just the idea that there is a whole other galaxy visible from earth. Just fascinating

@flypurplecat4774

7 жыл бұрын

RolfeynatoR There should be a Pulitzer for this type of video research/production/ narration. I feel like I discovered David Butler while looking for non-scientist instruction way back when his followers numbered in the dozens. Seen his other series? I personally love the classical music which is so fitting for the topics. I have gone thru this Video Book probably 100 times. Congratulate Mr. Butler !

@howfarawayisit

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Mr. Butler, I have watched this series so many times now, I could almost recite it from memory. Still, when you say "He knew he had another galaxy", I get goosebumps every time. How he must have enjoyed the feeling of being, for even a short while, the only man on earth to know for sure that there were other galaxies. Also, "It did NOT wobble" but that is for another time.Thanks again.

This universe is beyond any imaginative scale or scope...and the "inevitable" life out there must be absolutely limitless! WOW!

@DaiBei

4 жыл бұрын

And this is only our 4D material world. When you die your soul goes to the astral world which is so much bigger.

Music goes so well with this presentation

I want audio books read by this guy!

5:29 - the moment you learn “smaller” galaxies are orbiting big Galaxies. ::mind blown::

And somewhere way out there on Andromeda, they are certainly looking at our light arriving from some period in time. Amazing.

@dheerajvirgo3

7 жыл бұрын

exactly what I was thinking! :D

@OrionB1498

7 жыл бұрын

Comic Book Guy Why is it highly improbable?

@BruceK10032

7 жыл бұрын

Well, considering that galaxy is about half again bigger than ours, it's even more likely for a civilization to be there than in our own galaxy. We know there is one here. We can't really judge the probability that there are others. And if we can see that galaxy with our naked eyes at this distance, then any life form that has eyes as sensitive as ours and an atmosphere as clear as ours can see our own. Ours would be a little smaller and fainter in their sky than they are in ours. So there are a lot of variables, but it isn't improbable.

@Mediumal

7 жыл бұрын

Don't you know. God created the Universe and made us in his own image. There is nothing out there. We are utterly alone, and we will one day meet our maker and his son Jesus in heaven.

@BKsunstar

6 жыл бұрын

you can't prove it

Space is so awesome! It’s mind blowing to see how immense the universe is through the eyes of Hubble.

I get goose bumps when I watch stuff like this and contemplate is space is without end, with our borders ... no end!!! There is no other side (that we can discern) ..... My head is hurting!!!

Judging by some of these comments, its a wonder intelligent life evolved on Earth at all.

@firstnameIastname

4 жыл бұрын

I like to think of it as, if we were all the same life would be pretty boring. Yeah unfortunately stupid seems to be contagious, hereditary, and too often irreparable. Bring on the aliens lol

This video was so soothing to watch.... The images were fascinating and the music with narration perfect!

One of the gems for backyard astronomers.

Superb, perfect level of scientific evidence, history and fact for, sadly, most of you people below to fail to appreciate. Beautiful. Stunning.

@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the people below dont even believe space is real.

@dougraddi908

4 жыл бұрын

Pfft enough. What do you know

@julesnfriends

4 жыл бұрын

@@dougraddi908 Hi Doug, even with a cheap telescope you could see for yourself. Happy New Year anyway bro

Just imagine a trip to visit the sun in 8 minutes at lightning speed. Then onwards to Andromeda, a 2.5 million year trip.

@dragoda

2 жыл бұрын

And after a 2.5 million year trip to find out that the galaxy is not there, that in this time the galaxy was destroyed or engulf by a black hole. We need to travel there by multiplyers of speed of light or a worm hole to get there faster.

A very nice summary of our neck of the woods. Thanks so much for making these! I wish we could tell the ancients what we have learned, not just the new generations. But, i know it is impossible. Still, we all can and do see and wonder for them, as once they have done the same for us, as we all do for all those who are yet to be. It is just a joy to be a part of it all. What else (or whom else) will find out there...

I love this older format with the music 🎶, I love the pictures too. amazing

@robertpradella6550

4 жыл бұрын

It gives me peace.

Thank you David Butler for this video! It's an incredible view of a tiny part of our universe!

Spectacular and super stunning glimpses of the unending creation called the universe. Absolutely nothing could be more gripping and hypnotic with intrigue. Absolutely nothing

Narrator dude is chill. Almost asleep. Maybe he’s a hypnotist. I’m soooo sleepy now.

Nocturne from String Quartet by Alexander Borodin is just perfect

@paologalli5803

6 жыл бұрын

ahahahahahahah...

I would like to take this time and express my gratitude, I greatly appreciate the work that you do.

It's superbly narrated and presented Mr Butler. Thank you.

The sheer vastness of the Universe and our knowledge of it being so has been one of the great discoveries of the human mind. We cannot be alone in this Universe. On some distant world orbiting a star in Andromeda, I bet there are sentient beings looking back at us and wondering what life might exist in the Milky Way. Not that they'll call our Galaxy by that name of course. And being sentient intelligent beings they'll guess that they are not alone either. Will we ever meet? Doubt it. The distances are just too great.

@democracy480

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think that would ever happen unless Humans or those other beings can figure how to live for Eternity. When the scope captured that light it left that Galaxy millions of years ago traveling at the highest speed.Its sad that humans will never get to visit those Galaxies.

@BertBlanco1962

4 жыл бұрын

The Fermi paradox.

@markburch6253

4 жыл бұрын

I used a laser pointer and in Morse code flashed a message to Andromeda proclaiming our galaxy as the milky way. So I got you covered there. They'll be getting the message in a couple million years. I just hope I led it by enough. It's not really where we see it. It's been moving at 300 kilometers per second for 2.5 million years. So it's roughly 788 trillion kilometers away from where we see it now. Plus I have to double that for the 2.5 million years it's gonna take my message to get there. Maybe I should send my messages several times the way submarines used to spread torpedoes. What do you think?

How can anyone think we are the only life in the Universe? Impossible!

@guyincognito7308

5 жыл бұрын

I have loved and followed astronomy and science but still cannot get my head around how big it is out there...and we think getting on a plane is far away...we aren't even planck length in scheme of things...

@dandell8977

5 жыл бұрын

Jesus only crated one living thing. That be humen beens. You goong bern in satens hellfir Amen.

@coreythomas9906

5 жыл бұрын

Mathematically improbable

I want this guy to give my eulogy. I could sleep very peacefully listening to him talk. Very well done.

Great video, beautiful soothing music.

@D45VR

4 жыл бұрын

I used to know name of this music... does anyone know it?

@cartapax5077

4 жыл бұрын

@@D45VR Borodin Nocturne and Elgar Enigma Variations.

@17N.

4 жыл бұрын

Cartap how the hell would you know something like that??? Hats off sir!!!

I was watching this in full fascination, with my mouth open. This is a fantastic video. Who downvoted this? Seriously, who downvotes this???

@MoniMoni-gc9dw

4 жыл бұрын

This isn't reddit lmao

@sclogse1

4 жыл бұрын

Earth centric types.

@gatestimonymiracle1302

4 жыл бұрын

Haters do that

This presentation was great. I will watch the whole series.

I love watching these videos in the dark at night. Very relaxing ASMR.

To be able to travel to these local galaxies is a fantasy of mine. I am very sure that we would find life in all these galaxies and possibly in all areas of the universe that has stars and maybe even in some dark regions, where life survives far differently then our own. From there, on to the farther reaches of space.

@biohazard4371

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it will just remain a mere dream for alot of us for thousands of years to come

@steveameling2718

3 жыл бұрын

There are ways to travel, but not how you think. Read William Buhlman.

@juanramirez6251

3 жыл бұрын

Biohazard You just never know...

Not gonna lie, this is like Beethoven's 5th symphony to me. Intoxicating.

@craigpennington1251

4 жыл бұрын

Not really. 1:15 into this and I was almost asleep.

Wonderful, just wonderful, waiting for more Ingvar, Norway

One of my favorite astronomy channels, along with DeepAstronomy.

This guy is so smart he is absolutely genius and I love the sound of his voice it’s very calming relaxing not loud screech you like some other guys I can listen to this guy all day

@howfarawayisit

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks P.J.

@pauliether.c.guy.3349

6 жыл бұрын

David Butler anytime David anything I can do to help support the channel. I want to see more of you. I am blown away by this.

The musical music is soothing

@GBPackFan62

4 жыл бұрын

andromeda M31 It's called Nocturne (String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, Movement)

what an enormous contribution this series is. THANK YOU.

i just want this program to go on for 20 hours

M32 and 110 are always a welcomed sight, too. Love to see them in my 4" binocs, along with 33, which I refer to as "The Ghost Galaxy" due to low-surface brightness. I use Cassiopeia to find 31 in just a few seconds.

A Copernican moment, when Hubble realized that there were galaxies other than our own, and the universe became a really really big place.

Someday in the distant future, a starship officer would be venturing out into the universe at warp speed and find out Andromeda contains planets with advanced civilizations. That would be amazing.

There's nothing better, to me that is, than sitting in the study of my home, adjacent to the beautiful bookshelves & by the fire, coffee in hand reading or watching but definitely learning about space, time, cosmology & or astronomy all while classical music plays in the background. Oh, and with my baby puppy all snuggly in my lap or laying next to me on the floor. 🙂🐶☕🌎🌓🌠🌙🌗🌚🌟🌀

Both incredibly facinating and mind boggling! We most definitely are not the only eggs in God's basket. We are truly blessed to be here at all and even more so to realize the true vastness of the universe and just a handful of her secrets! We are but a speck on a piece of sand on a endless beach. Just to try and wrap my finite brain in basic theory around that concept is awesome to try. I truly believe we are only limited by our own thought processes and limited imagination. And only my ideology but Faith is so simple but yet far beyond the intellect of the vast mind. " The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen ". Thank you Lord just to be here and have a shot at life itself.

His voice and the music are so relaxing. Love these videos

STRING QUARTET (Alexander Borodin) Notturno

@erictko85

5 жыл бұрын

NeoNeoNeo thank you!

I wonder how many worlds are like our own.

@lalherliana7595

4 жыл бұрын

@Enjoy and Travel The World! yeah, no one knows, I've been wondering that...

Its so sad and also beautiful how big the universe is, Its sad in the sense that its so big that we as humans may never get the chance to travel the stars.

@jamesrobert7155

5 жыл бұрын

I feel the same.

@markburch6253

4 жыл бұрын

We still Kill each other over bronze age myths. Better keep it local until that's sorted out.

Wonderful video you`ve made. With the music, it`s highly satisfying, well made and a great tour of our local group. I particularly enjoyed the star forming regions you`ve presented and it was highly informative!

I showed this video to students in my Astrophysics course in Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek. Many thanks.

@howfarawayisit

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know.

i just want to write how relaxing the narration and notice everyone already comment on that

I love how the background music is the third movement of Borodine String quartet no. 2!

New info suggests that our galaxy is actually much larger than originally believed. For years we've been told that the milky way was 100,000 light years across. Now scientists believe it's between 170,000 and 200,000 light years across. That would make it much closer to the same size as Andromeda

@LiradeTerpsichore

5 жыл бұрын

YES !!!

Beautiful, also with Borodin String Quartet

Thanks for these amazing videos! I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that people in 1923 saw their universe expand by such an immense amount. That must have been both awe-inspiring and terrifying.

Took me 8 years to beat the KZread algorithm and finally find this channel and I watch a lot of space, astronomy and astrophysics videos. Searches for exact subjects this gentleman posts didn’t seem to show up in searches for me, it’s like the algorithm just ignores his channel unless you luckily find it and subscribe.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you very much for putting together this absolutely beautiful presentation.

Pluto is like nearly 4 billion miles away. If that was scaled down to just a half a mm away, and Andromeda would be like over 2,000 km away (on the same scale).

@mohanpathak

3 жыл бұрын

My goodness!!

@Justwantahover

3 жыл бұрын

@@mohanpathak And it's every bit as crazy when we go small into the micro reality.

@mohanpathak

3 жыл бұрын

@@Justwantahover didn't get that. Could you please elaborate?

@Justwantahover

3 жыл бұрын

@@mohanpathak The distances in space are so vast that you have to scale things down a lot to get an idea. And you have to scale things up a lot for stuff like atom sizes and stuff. Space. If The distance of Pluto was scaled down to a half a mm, our Galaxy would be 100 km diameter. Atoms. If a nucleus was 1/8" diameter the whole atom would be the size of a house (and it's 99.999% empty space between the electron "shell" and the nucleus).

Tremendous shots & wonderful mind expansion .

My 17 year old son won a telescope in a contest at a local college when he was 11. Since then we have been in astronomy clubs and have had a great time learning this incredible science. It is a great idea to get kids into the sciences and arts as soon as possible. Its great for the parents too. I wouldn't know any of this if it were not for his initial interest. I plan to introduce this channel to him when I see him again.

@howfarawayisit

7 жыл бұрын

I have started showing these to my oldest grandchild (7 years old). She's beginning to take note.

@queenfanpiper6299

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!! Its great to watch the kids learn. She may soon run a local astronomy club in the community. My kid is acing every science class he gets. A plus last year in biology. This year he is loving chemistry. He is dyslexic but that isn't stopping him in those subjects. I wish your grandchild the best.

Andromeda sounds like the cool big brother of the geeky lil' Milky Way.

@howfarawayisit

9 жыл бұрын

Besides my howfarawayisit channel, there are a large number of excellent science channels. I like the Hubble Space Telescope, and TheATLASExperiment. You can find additional links on howfarawayisit.com

We are so insignificant when it comes to this point ..is just mind blowing

Your descriptions ... poetic to me. This goes at the perfect speed on the right level for the whole fam. Subscribed. I will now go to the update as suggested!

Thank You so much David Butler Sir, for this mind blowing video with spectacular pictures & very nice graphical way of showing various Galaxy locations. Simply Awesome . 600 Billion Respectful greetings to you ( the same number of Stars as in our Milky Way ). 🙏🙏🙏👌👍🌹🌷🌿🌾🌻☘️🍀🌺🙏🙏🙏

Very pleasant narration, soothing even.

Well presented video. I've suddenly realized I'm even smaller than I always thought!

3:30 - 4:00 is beautiful, esp with the music.

This is one of the best and most beautiful videos on KZread and I like to just rewatch it every once in a while.

sir, very nice narration, excellent pick of music and good content. the best part is you base everything on facts unlike others who speculate a lot. thumbs up from my side.

Fascinating! Thank you for posting this!

Human life is too short. We will never reach Andromeda. Yet there are so much beauty in the universe. We don't even know what are missed.

@Brennan_Dale3169

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps in our next life

My grandmother died in 2011 at age 101. Her mind was "sharp" until the last days. She could remember as a child in grade school that our Milky Way galaxy was the full extent of the Universe. I was 12 when Man landed on the Moon and my Grandmother was there huddled around the TV with a lot of the family. The awe that she must have felt and the things that were discovered in her Lifetime (1910-2011) are almost overwhelming. She came into the world with Haley's Comet and was disappointed that it wasn't more visible when it made its pass in the 1980's. Just imagine what we will know a hundred years from now! A human life of 70 or 80 years is a mere snapshot in the time parameters of the Universe but Human knowledge just keeps trucking along. Thanks to all the people that devote their lives to the mundane job of tracking the fine details of the obscure that keeps our knowledge base growing! Thanks again to Mr. Butler for posting these fine videos.

@howfarawayisit

10 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful story.

Just found your stuff. Really well done. Very entertaining, interesting, and informative. Thanks!

@Marc98338

4 жыл бұрын

You just found the best channel on KZread my friend.

@TheMg49

4 жыл бұрын

@@Marc98338 Yeah, Mr. Butler makes some excellent astro vids. Not sure how it would be labeled. Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology? Anyway, I watch a lot of these sorts of vids from a lot of different channels. Fascinating stuff! Lots of open questions to answer, mysteries to solve!

I absolutely love your videos. I am learning so much from you. Thank you for them!

That initial zoom in to Andromeda is simply breathtaking 😍.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke

@eartrail

3 жыл бұрын

We are not alone.

Perfect music and commentary Mr butler. Thank you

MW galaxy is 100,000 ly across. Andromeda is 2,000,000 ly away. That means that Andromeda is only 20 MW galaxy widths away from us. That is alarmingly close. I feel claustrophobic all of a sudden.

@yggdrasil9039

5 жыл бұрын

OK, it's 25 MW galaxy widths away. So if a person's stance is half a metre wide, and that person represents the MW galaxy, then Andromeda is a person 1 metre wide standing 12 and a half metres away. That's close.

@john10661492

5 жыл бұрын

Andromeda’s on a collision course with our galaxy. Your mission, should you chose to accept it. Bear in mind, though, you must act quickly, we have MAYBE 600 million years.

Great job on this. Fantastic narration. Thank you. I'll be looking for more of your videos.

very soothing background music ideal for this cosmologic tour ....beautiful galaxy photos

We are definitely not alone! There’s got to be intelligent life out there. We can’t be alone, there’s no way we are alone!

@bigtasty25

6 жыл бұрын

26humor26 if u do your research on KZread you’ll know we aren’t alone 👍😉

@Ultramendoza

5 жыл бұрын

Of course we aren't one of a kind miracle, carbon, water and oxygen are common in the universe, life always find it's way, but space distances are so huge that intelligent civilizations may become extinct before having the opportunity to meet each other, I think it is a cycle of life in cosmic scales.

Somewhere faraway someone is viewing the collision of andromeda and the milky way billions of years after it happened

@mr.evasion

4 жыл бұрын

No. The opposite, If it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't happened. Regardless

That was calmingly well presented. Thank you.

Thank you David Butler. Great beautiful presentation and information, with great music. Many thanks again.

@chazboner7041

5 жыл бұрын

Anzay Warid thank you David Butler for reaching your age without kissing a woman

There has to be life like us out there.

@GB3770

4 жыл бұрын

no there doesn't but there probably is...

@coffeeis4closers

4 жыл бұрын

Isnt it interesting though, even though that sounds very likely, we have actually NEVER found any type of life. What does that mean?

Great video, we should feel privileged to be able to see these, and proud to be part of a race that makes it possible. The majesty of these sights are overwhelming.

just found this channel tonight and i've watched at least 5 hours worth :) subbed up right away, what a teacher, thank you Mr Butler :)

This is one of the first targets I use for beginners in astronomy. It helps to put our place in the cosmos into perspective. Some nights it’s all I watch, spectacular.

After decades of layman study and plain old curiosity I realize (comprehend?) that our most distant perceivable Galaxies are not even 1% of the distance of travel. It truly is impossible for the human mind to comprehend that there may be "things" in space that are a googol light years distant that are not 1% of infinity.

@philrobertson2705

6 жыл бұрын

If you started traveling toward an object at the edge of the current known Universe at the speed of light you would never reach it because the expansion of the Universe is greater than the speed of light.

1. Light can travel around Earth seven times in a second. 2. When the light that hit Hubble's telescope left Andromeda, there were no humans on Earth. Okay the universe is big.

@desther7975

4 жыл бұрын

Why did you put an apostrophe in "humans"?

@PhilSowden

4 жыл бұрын

@@desther7975 Oops!

Thank you! ABSOLUTELY beautiful!

I am watching all of your uploads several times because I'm learnign sooo much! Thank you for making quality vids for people to learn and increase their knowledge.