a red and rocky landscape similar to the
surface of math this is the Chilean
Atacama Desert
dry lifeless empty
but not everywhere on a mountain 2,600
meters high far away from city life
Ethan's Very Large Telescope has the
best view of the night sky anywhere on
earth
the telescope's encased in these
gigantic domes are the most powerful and
advanced ever built
they can see objects four billion times
fainter than we can with the naked eye
and with them we can delve further into
the depths of our universe than ever
before
the glowing band of the Milky Way
home to our son to our solar system and
to billions of other stars and solar
systems
these are the constellations Scorpius
and Sagittarius
the Scorpion and the archer
just two of the 88 that creep across the
night sky
modern visible-light and infrared
telescopes can peer deep into the veil
of gas and dust that close our view
letting us travel to the center of our
galaxy v
in the center of the Milky Way pregnant
with gas and dust the stars are on the
move
over more than 20 years a hundred stars
have been followed by The Very Large
Telescope and the keck telescopes
these staff have revealed the hiding
place of a powerful monster at our
galaxy's heart a black hole 4 million
times more massive than our Sun
the exact nature of black holes is a
mystery
they have baffled history's greatest
scientists and become the stuff of
science fiction black holes will consume
anything that strays into their part and
some of the most interesting stars in
our galaxy are caught in our black
hole's gravitational grip
but this black hole will not be
satisfied by the swelling of stars
a giant gas cloud several times the mass
of the Earth is accelerating towards
this invisible beast and at more than 8
million kilometers an hour it is dude
by studying the Stars
center of the milky way we have
discovered a mysterious for that his
heart
but the journey does not end here
retreating from the center the latest
infrared observations let us unveil huge
portions of the Milky Way the very large
telescopes neighbor vista is the world's
most powerful Infrared Survey telescope
it has the power to transform our view
pierced by the infrared
version of vista the veil of dust all
the way
now the dark dust clouds that once
engulfed whole region's of the sky have
all but disappeared
this infrared image is one of the
biggest astronomical images ever
produced showing 84 million stars 84
million stars with 84 million mysteries
waiting to be solved
are there planets
we have delved deeper into the Milky Way
than ever before and found many answers
and millions of questions left to ask
those telescopes will continue their
mission to dig into the skies
solving and discovering the mysteries of
the Milky Way
I had throughout the only burden
it doesn't have TV coverage of the baby
and it man you got the black up now and
you're gonna start getting a TV picture
never fail us we are getting a
now
one all right
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