mike merrifield explaining neat stuff is one of the great pleasures of life

"If you make a kiwi fruit out of stars..." This thought is simultaniously ver poetic and absolutely hilarious.

Professor Mike! I like his vids.

Such a thoughtful way to present us with interesting science - study objects first recognized hundreds of years ago. Speaking of long ago, M86 is currently in a kiwi fruit configuration. Galaxy shapes transform over time, even without interaction with colliding galaxies.

@MountainFisher

2 жыл бұрын

It is also called Markarian's Chain because there is a few galaxies near it in a curve. It is one of the few galaxies I can see with my 150mm reflector without several 30 second exposures. My scope is hand controlled so any exposures must be short because of the Earth's rotation would cause elongated stars if I took more than 30 seconds. Depending on magnification I cannot even take more than 10 seconds at 250x as it is moving too fast. I only use such high magnification to see eclipsing type double stars. Many stars you see at night like Polaris, the North Star is a double or triple star like Polaris is.

Interesting guest, and a good interviewer allowing your guest to explain at his own pace. A new subscriber.

"It's coming right for us!!!!" *Shoots M86*

@user-dv8ik1uh1p

3 жыл бұрын

No!!!!!!!

Fascinating how an object so familiar to amateur astronomers holds such odd characteristics. Mike is brilliant at uncovering such wonderful information and current research. Good thing he likes Kiwi fruit! Thanks!

Brilliant as always

Kinomatically Decoupled Cores. Now there's an album title!

You made a „boring“ eliptical galaxy so interesting that I want to point my little backyard-telescope towards it! Thank you!

Imaging this with my scope next week with the new moon and a desert site. Yay galaxy season is coming!!!

Thanks guys

It's fascinating how much we're able to tell just from the photons that have travelled all this way to us.

@XEinstein

3 жыл бұрын

Well... Technically I can read your comment by the photons comming out of my phone. So in general photons are pretty convenient things if you want to observe something

@unvergebeneid

3 жыл бұрын

@@XEinstein But if you hold that phone even just a few light years away, it's getting much harder.

@XEinstein

3 жыл бұрын

@@unvergebeneid Haha! Well... The real challenge lies in getting my phone a few light years away.

I don't always eat triaxial ellipsoid galaxies, but when I do, I peel the skin off them first.

@ragnkja

3 жыл бұрын

I cut them in half and hollow them out with a spoon.

Fascinating! Question for Professor Merrifield: does the motion of M86 appear to approach or exceed the escape velocity of the cluster? And if so, does that suggest that either it originated beyond the cluster, or that one component of the merger(s) that produced it did, to add the energy required to leave M86 on its way out?

The Kiwi Fruit Galaxy! Something my Kiwi friends should know about. I'm a Kiwi too! If you don't know what I mean, a person who is from New Zealand is referred to as a Kiwi. There are soooo many Kiwis. Here's the story of all the Kiwis: Humans, birds, fruits and galaxies. Originally the bird Kiwi was named because it makes a sound that sounds like it's saying kiwi. It's only found in New Zealand and so the people from New Zealand are known as Kiwis. New Zealanders, or Kiwis found a fruit to use as their main business. As New Zealand was the main exporter of Kiwi fruits, people called it Kiwi because it's from Kiwis. A galaxy looks like a Kiwi fruit and so it has been named Kiwi. Fact: players from New Zealand are also called Kiwis.

Nice "Money for Nothing" T-shirt. Tim Hein is my favorite member of Dire Straights!

@SuperShadowP1ay

3 жыл бұрын

Thought I was the only one who would recognize the masterpiece of masterpieces in its visual form.

This series is super helpful for working through the Mrssier program with AL

Brady deserves an honorary doctorate in astronomy and another one in mathematics.

The galaxy videos are the best!

"If you made a kiwi fruit out of stars..." Well damn if that isn't poetic.

Professor's brain: I'm going 300 km/h Yippee! Professor's tongue: please don't go so fast, I can't keep up with you.

Love Galaxies!

I enjoy Mike's videos very much, though I haven't seen a video from Dr Gray in a while. I love Meghan's presentations. Any chance of another video from her please, Brady?

Prof. Mike, do you think this phenomenon of two possible orbit families could be somehow related to the stability of a rotating shape with three different axes? I've seen a few videos explaining how an object like that, say a smartphone or a book, can only stably rotate around the shortest and longest axes, and keeps flipping rotational direction when rotating about the middle one. I realize it's not one single object, but maybe the orbits of a large number of stars produce a similar effect?

Wow I'm early. Can we get a vid on how galaxies themselves move throughout space?

Ok, We should rename M86 to Kiwi.

I feel an affinity for that galaxy.

Does the stripped gas provide any hints of M86's rotation? The linked paper describes how the stripping indicates the path of the galaxy itself, but I didn't see any sampling done normal to that path to detect possible asymmetry due to uneven stripping on either side of candidate paths due to rotation (if that's even a thing).

Oh lawd he's comin

Yesssssss

How many do we have left?

Very good. Fluid dynamics with gravity?

@Frahamen

3 жыл бұрын

me too, especially kiwi fruit shaped ones ;p

Is M86 also moving towards the Great Attractor like the Milky Way?

Mike tells the facts he’s a top bloke 😂

Why is so much time and study given to m86? If I'm not mistaken that's the galaxy that holds the black hole we took a picture of aswell.

@MatthijsvanDuin

3 жыл бұрын

that was M87

@ThaigressWhisperer

3 жыл бұрын

That was M87, not M86

IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!! 🦌

I wan to know more about the intergalactic gas and dust that the kiwi galaxy is plowing through.

I wonder what an elliptical galaxy would look like from within.

🌠👍

You missed an opportunity to draw an outline of a kiwifruit, over this galaxy, for emphases.

Is it a jellyfish?

Not a star fruit then.

Who keeps a kiwi in a fridge?

I see a sausage or hotdog.

😭😭WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH DROUGHT WITH THESE VIDEOS. FEED OUR THIRST FOR CURIOSITY BRADY, PLEASE😫

Never was i so early and it was still mediocore