ENROUTE TO ANDROMEDA: #Bestof2022: 1/2: #Astronomy: #Cosmology Origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Science News
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ENROUTE TO ANDROMEDA: #Bestof2022: 1/2: #Astronomy: #Cosmology Origins of the Milky Way. Ken Croswell, Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/milky-way-galaxy-nucleus-oldest-stars-protogalaxy
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| 0:00.0 | With BT Broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom, and hello to... |
| 0:04.6 | Huh? |
| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World, here's John Batchler. |
| 0:41.2 | In and around the constellation Sagittarius, a discovery thanks to the Gaia spacecraft, |
| 0:48.2 | a discovery that takes us to the very beginning of our very lucky and very beautiful Milky |
| 0:54.2 | Way. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome Dr. Ken Croswell, the author of The Alchemy of the Heavens, and other distinguished |
| 1:00.3 | astronomy books. |
| 1:01.3 | But right now, reporting in science news, new information of this discovery in and around |
| 1:07.6 | the constellation Sagittarius, can a very good evening to you. |
| 1:11.8 | What has the Max Planck Institute found? |
| 1:15.0 | And what does it mean? |
| 1:16.0 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:17.0 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, this is a very exciting work that I report about at Science News, and it really |
| 1:23.7 | focuses on one of the themes of my book, The Alchemy of the Heavens. |
| 1:26.8 | How did this great galaxy that we now inhabit, and that gave rise to the sun and the earth |
| 1:32.4 | and to wonderful beings like you and me? |
| 1:36.0 | How did it all start? |
| 1:38.0 | And what these scientists have found with the help of data from the Gaia spacecraft is the |
| 1:43.9 | proto-galaxy that made the Milky Way. |
| 1:46.9 | It's the original nucleus of the Milky Way, it's the kernel around which are a great |
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