122: #Bestof2022: With the Big Bang under review by the #James WebbSpaceTelescope: 2/2: #Astronomy: #Cosmology: Origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Science News (Originally posted October 21, 2022)
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122: #Bestof2022: With the Big Bang under review by the #James WebbSpaceTelescope: 2/2: #Astronomy: #Cosmology: Origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Science News (Originally posted October 21, 2022)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/milky-way-galaxy-nucleus-oldest-stars-protogalaxy
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| 0:00.0 | I wear a few different hats as a CFO. |
| 0:02.4 | You know, sometimes it's referred to as chief fixing officer. |
| 0:05.8 | Wherever there's a fire in the business, |
| 0:08.0 | you know, I'm often there first. |
| 0:11.5 | Whatever hats CFOs like him run need to wear, |
| 0:14.3 | Sages, tools and insights can make sure they fit. |
| 0:17.8 | Sage, helping business flow. |
| 0:25.1 | This is CBSI in the world, the pero galaxy |
| 0:27.7 | that becomes the Milky Way. |
| 0:30.1 | Dr. Ken Croswell, writing at Science News, |
| 0:32.9 | introduces us to a discovery made by the Gaya spacecraft |
| 0:36.6 | whose mission is to chart the Milky Way, |
| 0:39.3 | finding a proto galaxy 18,000 light years across |
| 0:43.6 | that right now we're understanding it's where we came from. |
| 0:48.4 | We're part of the Milky Way. |
| 0:50.6 | We're in the thin disk, following the thick disk, |
| 0:53.8 | somewhere in relationship to the black hole that's a center |
| 0:56.5 | and then the proto galaxy. |
| 0:58.1 | Now Ken, at the close of every piece in Science News, |
| 1:01.3 | you tease about what comes next. |
| 1:03.9 | A star that astronomers can now scrutinize |
| 1:06.5 | for further clues to the galaxy's birth and early evolution. |
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