#Bestof2022: 2/2: #Uranus: Voyage to the unknowns of the gas giant. Ken Croswell, PNAS.
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#Bestof2022: 2/2: #Uranus: Voyage to the unknowns of the gas giant. Ken Croswell, PNAS.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216692119
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| 0:35.4 | This is CBSI in the world, the proto-galaxy that becomes the Milky Way. |
| 0:40.1 | Dr Ken Croswell, writing at Science News, introduces us to a discovery made by the Gaya spacecraft, |
| 0:46.6 | whose mission is to chart the Milky Way. |
| 0:49.2 | Finding a proto-galaxy 18,000 light years across that right now we're understanding |
| 0:57.0 | it's where we came from. |
| 0:58.2 | We're part of the Milky Way. |
| 1:00.3 | We're in the thin disk, following the thick disk, somewhere in relationship to the black |
| 1:04.9 | hole that's the center, and then the proto-galaxy. |
| 1:07.6 | Now Ken, at the close of repeated science news, you tease about what comes next. |
| 1:13.2 | A star that astronomers can now scrutinize for further clues to the galaxy's birth and |
| 1:17.7 | early evolution. |
| 1:18.8 | What do we want to learn for looking at the red giants that are in the proto-galaxy? |
| 1:23.8 | Well, one thing, as I mentioned in the last segment that we've already learned is to |
| 1:28.5 | see the Milky Way's initial spin-up. |
| 1:31.4 | I think it's really exciting. |
| 1:32.9 | It's transition from an object that didn't rotate into one that now does. |
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