A Tour of the Galactic Center

A Tour of the Galactic Center



The video if of NASA's new with a 360 degree view of the Milky Way Galaxy. This was made from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory- more here. There the section of the universe is being studied by the use of infrared and x-rays.


From the Observatory but a lower quality copy.


NASA - Chandra

I'm enjoying all of the imagery coming out as of late of planets-namely Jupiter, was interesting to find this.

Get off my lawn!

One day a creature that eats those things will manifest. And it might look like Ray Kurzweil....

a reply to: dreamingawake

That was cool.

What's interesting is that there were a few Science Fiction books which talked about advanced civilizations 'near the Galactic Center or Galactic Core', as though that's where they'd gather.

We now know that this location would be very hazardous, lots of radiation, particle collisions, impacts.

However, we also know that there are SMBH in the Galactic cores which is a very large source of potential energy. So a super-advanced Galactic civilization might set up here, with appropriate protections and force fields to tap into this source of energy (perhaps a Matrioshka Brain)

a reply to: dreamingawake

Love the 360 degree Galaxy video just wish I had VR to get immersed in it.

a reply to: dreamingawake
It is almost like the inside of a drop of water, with lots of particulates and microbes just floating about.