Videos: Milky Way videos
Milky way videos
(i.e., Milky Way
videos):
- A timelapse view of the milky way
from Chile | 0:46:
This is from an ESO person.
The structures are radio telescope---no domes.
The video is high sensitivity
(yours truly believes) since the
Milky Way is NOT that
bright to the naked eye
even on a mountain top
in Chile and the
Moon is glaring.
Short enough for classroom.
- 800 Megapixel Panorama of Milky Way | 0:55:
Nearly a gigapan.
OK for classroom.
- Space School- Milky Way | 5:39:
Good. Too long for classroom.
- When galaxies collide! | 1:36:
Good grief.
A computer simulation
from
NASA/ESA.
The Andromeda-Milky Way collision
is an example of
interacting galaxies
and galaxy merger.
The two spiral galaxies
(the Milky Way and the
Andromeda Galaxy (M31)) merge
and become an elliptical galaxy.
The elliptical galaxy
is also
quenched galaxy
due to
golden-mass quenching
(see Man & Belli 2018, p. 1;
Bower et al 2016).
     
Actually, one wonders where does the initial
gravitational potential energy
of the merging galaxies go to.
It becomes kinetic energy
as they fall together, but only a little of this
dissipates
to heat and then
is emitted to infinity as photons
due to colliding
interstellar medium (ISM).
The stars almost never collide
in a body-on-body sense, and so CANNOT
dissipate
kinetic energy that way.
And the dark matter
(whatever kind of particles
it is) do NOT dissipate
kinetic energy via
collisions much either.
Well, much of the
kinetic energy
must become
rotational kinetic energy
of the orbits of the
stars and
dark matter particles.
Also in the complex
galaxy merger process, probably
a lot of
stars and
dark matter particles
get ejected to infinity carrying of
kinetic energy.
The ejection could be in
long tidal tails
or via
gravity assists (AKA gravitational slingshot maneuvers).
The ejected stars are so spread out
they just form a low density
star population
spread through
intergalactic space.
But yours truly needs an authoritative explication.????
     
This version of the video
was prepared by
Phil Plait (1964--).
Good and short enough for the classroom.
- Stunning Portrait of the Milky Way Galaxy | 3:07:
The infrared view.
Good, but too long for the classroom.
- Black Hole Eruption in the Galactic Center | 2:00:
I don't attest to its authoritativeness.
It seems OK, but too long for the classroom.
- The Cepheids : 6:48:
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868--1921)
and the
Cepheids.
I won't attest to its authoritativeness.
Too long for the classroom.
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