Fun Tour : Galaxies with Nate
Galaxies are the huge, gassy, and massive things that fly around in space. They are quite massive because they have a LOT of stars inside. They also hang around in groups! Now we will have a tour on galaxies and ‘talk’ to them personally! The Milky Way Hello! I’m the Milky Way and I’m the home of your precious star, The Sun! Deep in my center, I have a Supermassive Black Hole! I’m very thin like a disk and I’m only 1,000 light years (ly) thick. My bulge in the middle is 3,000 ly thick. However, I’m 100,000 ly across, which is really long! The Sun actually travels at 220,000 km/h! That’s because it’s orbiting my center! Andromeda Galaxy or M31 Good day! I’m your galaxy’s closest neighbor even though I’m still very far! However, I’m on a crash course with your galaxy because I’m a bit too close for comfort. For more information, see Colliding galaxies . Our new galaxy will be an elliptical galaxy called… ‘Milkdromeda’? Yeah, I know. It's uncreative, just comprom...