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The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future Astronomers have recently found out what kind of galactic real estate might be available to us. Well have to develop advanced transport to land there, 20 light years away. The question right now: is it worth the trip?

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Part 3 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble space Telescope and much more.

This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions.

Find out more at: http://www.spacetelescope.org

Interested in scientific theory relating to the creation of our universe and beyond? Try some of these links:

http://scienceline.org/2006/08/21/ask-snyder-bang/

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/white_hole_030917.html

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/03/16_hawking_text.shtml

Wrap some brain cells around that!

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1 Dec 08 Update
Thanks for watching my video. I never thought it would reach more than a million views. I don’t interact too much because of my poor English. But there are a few things I need to set clear.
1. “Why did you stop at the Milky Way?”: Because I didn’t have more images.
2. This video is not about God. When I made it I wasn’t thinking in God, it’s more a video about humility and humanity. But each person interprets the video in a different way, and that’s okay.
3. I never said we humans are “insignificant”; saying that the true greatness is not in (or only in) the Earth doesn’t mean we are insignificant. I just wanted to say that we humans need to stop thinking we are te greatest thing in the universe, since we don’t know the universe well enough to say that. You don’t need to be the greatest thing in the universe to be significant.
4. Please excuse my terrible English, I know there are a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes in the video, but the important thing is the message of the video, and I know that the great majority of viewers understand that.

5. “The scales are wrong”: This was made two years ago, with some images I found in the web. Besides, as I said before, the important thing is the message. If you want correct scales search in a book and not in YouTube.
Information about “Death Star”(Saturn’s satellite):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon)

Images showing the size of the planets compared to the Sun, and the Sun compared with other stars.

Music: Title Music from A Clockwork Orange, Wendy Carlos. (Original version: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Henry Purcell).

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Part 1 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.

This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions.

Find out more at:
http://www.spacetelescope.org

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How big is the universe?

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Part 4 of 6. Explores the revolution in astronomy launched by the Hubble space Telescope.

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A mind blowing animation showing the relative size of planets and stars in our universe.

Background music is from the song “Such Great Heights” by “The Postal Service”.

Original animation was made by http://www.cycomedia.net, this version was found on http://www.transbuddha.com

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We’ve never seen them directly, yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy, where they prey on stars, or swallow planets whole. Our Milky Way may harbor millions of these black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there’s evidence of something even more ominous: a breed of black holes that have reached incomprehensible size and destructive power. How big can they get? What’s the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide?

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See How Big The universe Is

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