VIDEO: TOUR THE GALAXY TO THE END OF SPACE ITSELF

[NeonsStyle]

To a super chill sound track of NASA & Radio Astronomy actual Sounds of Space, have an ASMR experience flying through the nebulae of the galaxy, the large and small Magellenic clouds and a couple of Eliptical galaxies. Then on to the End of the Universe.

A deep soothing ASMR sound is broadcast into your suite on board a giant Star Ship. You set off to cruise the galaxy and greater universe. As you lay there in your bed, the soothing sound sounds of space waft over you. The deep, almost OM like sounds of Space rebound around your room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5yOsHQV4aI&t=17s

[Skybird]

Nice!

And scary, if you think about it too much.

[NeonsStyle]

Nice!

And scary, if you think about it too much.

Definitely Scary. In the book 2 of The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Sirius Cybernetics favourite torture device was "The Total Perspective Vortex". This device was said to show you your place within the entire cosmos and your relationship to it. Most people it was said went mad with their insignificance. Of course there was one who survived the experience. It was of course Zaphod Beeblebrox. :)

[Skybird]

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

[Commander Wallace]

I have always been a big fan of Astronomy and Astrophysics. As I'm sure you already know, we have our first glimpses of a black hole. The discoveries that have been made and the theories that have been postulated are truly mind boggling. As the saying goes, It's hard to " wrap ones mind around " these discoveries.

I have followed Michio Kaku, Michelle Thaller, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence M. Krauss and of course, so many others in the Astronomy and Astrophysics fields. Stephen Hawking also contributed much to our understanding of space not to mention Albert Einstein. I'm very happy we have access to the science and history channels.

By the way, for the first time in 18 years, About half an hour before sunrise, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are aligned in their natural order from the sun stretching in a diagonal line starting low in the east. Look for it if you get the chance.


https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/5-planets-are-aligned-in-night-sky-for-first-time-in-18-years/


I also looked at your other links and offerings at https://www.youtube.com/c/NeonsStyleHD


Nice job and thanks for sharing them. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Skybird]

Oh, it escaped my attention that you were the cretaor of that video, Neon. My apologies! Take this as my tribute to the author. I had Space Engine running some years ago, in VR, but in VR it did not run well back then and the interface I found to be terrible. I tried it again (in VR) a year ago, and still was not impressed. But maybe the faults all lie on my side, thats absolutely possible.I assume you do it all in 2D, yes?

[mapuc]

Like CW I'm also fascinated by the Universe and astrophysics

The latter well I am only fascinated, tried sometimes to do some Astrophysics calculation-Failed.

So thank you for the video

Markus

[Skybird]

Markus, twelve yeras ago I red the 6th edition of this book


https://www.amazon.de/Astronomie-kosmische-Perspektive-Pearson-Studium/dp/3868943641/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1654955030&sr=8-3


which came with a 12 or 18 months subscription to online tutoring and questionaires, and I really worked through it, quite disciplined and with regular time table per week as if I were studying. It is not a scientific styuding with plenty of mate,matics and abstract physics, more for the ambitous hopbby astronomner and interested layman - but for the usual standards of these ausdience it was - in the 6th edition - on very good niveau. I do not know what the currently actual format of the 9th edition is like, I heard the text suffers from politically correct gender reformulations, but I cannot comment on it, I dont know it. The book I had I oikekd a lot, and the online course ran smooth and well for me.

You might want to check out the English edition of the current version, if you want to examine astronomy a bit deeper and more organised. For not truly professional needs and demand, this book is probably the best the interersted layman can get.

Be adviose dhowever that the English editions now seem to offer various combionations of packages, some only with the book, some only offering access to the online course, some offering both (as I got it 12 years ago, it was the only avialable option back then). Also, apparently they now offer different versions of the book itself. I found the situation quite confusing when I checked for the English books, thats why I give you the German one. In German, 9th edition is the available. From here you can search and check yourself, if you are interested.

Myself, I completed the "curriculum" to maybe around 85%, then real life troubles and a year-long court battle distracted me and took my free energy, and when I came back to it two years later, the online subscription was all consummed up. Still, I liked that approach tremendously. I still have five notebooks (paper) with my own handwritten summaries of every chapter, and answers for the "tests", and my own notes. It was real and true home schooling, imo at its best.If I look at all that paperwork I could fall to the illsuion that I acutally "studied" astronoymn at unioversity! :D


the letdown is that I never had much to do with astronomy, so I have forgotten so very much of what I have learned back then. Terrible. Knowledge that does not get used, slowly fades again. Its frustrating. Same wioht general books on pohysics I have red. All the details disappeard again in an ocean of "forgetness". Age sucks.



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[mapuc]

^ Thank you so much Skybird-for recommending this book-As you said I should take the English version-I'm good at German, but not that good.

Furthermore I have read a lots of books about the Universe and Astrophysics when in my childhood and youth. Beside history books.

I already have an encyclopedia series where 4 out of the 24 books is Universe related. Book one is about the human.

I am going to place an order on the book anyway.

Markus

[Skybird]

^ Just be certain you are fully aware of what you order, the book, the online access code, or the book with the online part. And then they make it even more cokplex with various ebook format versions.



https://mlm.pearson.com/northamerica/masteringastronomy/


https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0321715365/ref=sr_1_12?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C 3%91&crid=1H2HHGDITLJFB&keywords=mastering+astronomy+the+cosmic+perspectiv e&qid=1654963156&sprefix=mastering+astronomy+the+cosmic+perspective %2Caps%2C142&sr=8-12


The amazon.com link seems to be the paper book version with online code. But if you wanmt to be very certain, I would order this one in the bookshop in your town .


It seems the online part also is organised differently now than it was 12 years ago.



You can save money if just ordering the book and no online, or an ebook. Personally, ebooks for me are just good when reading a novel in one rush, from start to end. Needing to search and study with ebooks on a tablet or ebook reader and moving back and forth is a damn PITA, imo. I HATE it, and with a passion.



If you buy the online part, note that the subscription period starts the day you activate your access, not at the date you buy the book. I had I think 18 months, if I recall it correctly, three semesters for what is supposed to be done in one semester. Of course all book material is fully workable and complete even without the online stuff. Its not as if the book becomes limited in value once the subscription period is over.



In all my praise I refer to the German edition of the 5th revision 2010 (correction over my previous mentioning of it being the 6th edition, no, I have the 5th, not the 6th.) Any later version and editions I do not know. Back then it costed 98 Euros, alltogether.

[mapuc]

We do not have an ordinary bookstore on our little island. Have to take the ferry to one of our bigger neighbour town where they have a few of these.

So for me it would be cheaper to place an order than paying for the ferry 4 times 45 Danish kroner. That is if they don't have the book and have to order it home-then I have to take two trips.

Found it on a Danish online bookstore-Price 1225 Danish Kroner.

Hmm the book cost on Amazon 188.08 € in Danish it is 1410 Kroner.

So the book which is the 9th edition is cheaper here.

I'm going to place an order on the book that's for sure-I'll read it first before putting me up to some online education.

Edit
I wrote before thinking or remembering-I can't buy this book yet-I'm saving money to buy this Thrustmaster T-something. The one Threadfine told me about in another thread.
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Markus

[nikimcbee]

Totally cool!
This was the first thing I thought of: Alternative soundtrack,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7MmS3vazU&t=169s

[NeonsStyle]

Thank you Commander Wallace and Skybird. I'm glad you both enjoyed it. There are quite a few other cool space videos I've made with Space Engine. Oh and yes I do record it in 2D. Space Engine requires a pretty good PC and in VR you'd need an exceptional one, especially near planets; even moreso in the latest version. I used to be able to record near planets and Sounds of Space 2 video we visit an alien planet and find a little creature ;) but in the latest verion of SE, the performance isn't as good when recording.

I too am a huge fan of Astronomy and have devoured everything I can find out about it over the course of many decades.

Glad you liked it. :)

[mapuc]

There is also another thing I'm fascinated by and that's Astrobiology. If there's science program about these people I watch it, but I haven't read any books about them in general.

Taking you to the edge of...Kansas is going bye bye...

Well I say our universe is endlessly and it has always been here..

It's only our own galaxy who started with a big bang.

Markus