Amazing VLT timelapse video

[Jarvitä]

No words.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Nothing like a little perspective on your place in the Cosmos, is there. Wow.

 

[dumbo2007]

Yes. I especially like the clear images of the Milky Way band. That video also gives a rough idea of the orientation of the earth with respect to the galactic plane. I read somewhere that we are currently above the galactic plane and will take 10 million years to reach the northern peak.

http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/may/18/galaxy.shtml

I wonder how that was determined !

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjpowell/Astro/Sgr/Find-Sagittarius.htm

 

[george7378]

I love the shot at 7:25 with the tiny telescopes silhouetted against the massive band of the Milky Way.