Galactic Center
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Sep 30, 2026
We Found Something Unexpected at the Heart of the Milky Way
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26:14Alex McColganHOST
With a few reference points like these, we can build up a real picture of the scale of our galaxy and beyond.
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26:25Alex McColganHOST
Looking toward the galactic center, a team of astronomers and data scientists found even more candidate Cepheid stars, 655 in fact.
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26:36Alex McColganHOST
They then sorted these into one of two classes, and found that 35 of these 655 stars were classical Cepheids, the younger of the two.
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26:47Alex McColganHOST
This was really exciting, especially since the galactic bulge was thought to contain mostly elderly stars that are at least 8 billion years old.
33 MINS LATER
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It is a hotbed of cosmic activity from the formation of stars to exploding supernovae.
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59:46Alex McColganHOST
And let's not forget Sagittarius A*, the super massive black hole four million times the mass of our sun at the very center of it all.
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59:57Alex McColganHOST
These conditions are hugely exciting for astronomers, but they make the galactic center notoriously hard to study.
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Visible light can't penetrate the dense clouds of dust and gas.
100 Facts About the Milky Way Galaxy — Fall Asleep to Astronomy for a Calm Journey Through Our Home Galaxy
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This is the story of where you are in the universe and what surrounds you in ways you can barely imagine.
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From the glowing heart at the galactic center to the faint halo of dark matter stretching half a million light years into the void, the Milky Way is a place of astonishing scale and beauty.
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For centuries humanity watched it as a milky band crossing the night sky, wondering what it truly was.
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Now we know it is home and understanding it changes how we feel about our place in everything.
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The outer edges move at almost the same speed as the inner regions, a mystery that kept astronomers puzzled for decades.
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This strange rotation curve was one of the first hints that something invisible was holding the galaxy together, something we now call dark matter.
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The Sun sits about 26,000 light years from the galactic center, a relatively ordinary location.
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Our solar system rests within the Orion Arm, a smaller spiral feature between two larger arms.
#335 Julia Balaz – Why the September Equinox Is Activating Ancient Memories
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21:28Emilio OrtizHOST
And if anything, these moments of equinoxes are times to really reflect on what has gotten us here.
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21:36Emilio OrtizHOST
And this has been a very challenging year for a lot of people, especially with the information that's been coming out, having to see some of the darker aspects of humanity rising to the surface, exploring whether we're alone in this universe or not, which your work suggests that we are pretty galactic and But one thing I wanted to bring up that also expands it into a wider picture regarding humanity's consciousness and these moments and cycles of separation and then unity is regarding our relationship to this galactic center that you've brought up a little bit prior in the conversation.
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22:18Emilio OrtizHOST
So when did you first start exploring the Galactic Center and what do you see its role playing out right now in all of this ascension, collective consciousness, everything that's happening right now?
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22:31Julia BalazGUEST
It was my community.
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22:33Julia BalazGUEST
It was a period of short amount of time when multiple people sent the same message, emailed me, did you hear of Philip Sedgwick's work, who is a phenomenal astrologer, contributed a huge amount of invaluable information to the astrology community, but he was observing astrology.
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22:50Julia BalazGUEST
the psychological impact of the galactic center if we look at where it is in our chart.
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22:56Julia BalazGUEST
And not only that, but he also went beyond to supergalactic center and then the greater tractor and beyond.
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23:01Julia BalazGUEST
So as a community, we started paying attention once we plugged these four into the software that we are using.
#616 ASTROLOGER PREDICTS: November Election Shockwaves, Alien Disclosure & The 2027 Peace Timeline | Joni Patry
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87:47Joni PatryGUEST
And so then when you wake up the next morning, you finish a glass of water and, you know, it doesn't always happen the first time, but you will get an answer.
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87:57Joni PatryGUEST
And it came to me to name my center Galactic Center.
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88:02Joni PatryGUEST
And I tell my husband that my dream the next day and he goes, that is the stupidest name I've ever heard of.
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They're going to think you're part of Star Trek or something.
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88:12Amrit SandhuHOST
is what the dream said.
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88:13Amrit SandhuHOST
A landing pad for the aliens.
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88:15Amrit SandhuHOST
Galactic center.
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88:17Amrit SandhuHOST
I know.
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The Most Relaxing Facts About Extreme Astronomy to Fall Asleep To
Sep 15 · 3 Mentions
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That evidence led scientists to identify the object as the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.
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It is surprisingly calm compared with many galactic centers.
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It is not currently blazing as a quasar because it is not feeding heavily.
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Still, its presence shapes the dense stellar environment around it.
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The surrounding gas becomes the signal.
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In binary star systems, this process can make a compact object blaze as it pulls material from a companion.
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In galactic centers, it can illuminate regions vastly larger.
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The heat is not produced by fire as we know it.
Chapter Ends-Poul William Anderson
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9:52Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Earth had stood as a sign of haven.
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9:56Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
To Jorun, who came from Galactic Center and its uncountable hosts of suns, heaven was bare.
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10:04Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
This was the outer fringe where the stars thinned away toward hideous immensity.
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10:09Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
He had shivered a little, drawn the envelope of air and warmth closer about him with a convulsive movement.
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20:27Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
You'll be happy there.' but the trees and grasses the soil and the fruits thereof the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the waters beneath form and color smell and sound taste and texture everything is different is alien the difference is small subtle but it is the abyss of two billion years of separate evolution and no other world can ever quite be earth judith looked straight at him with solemn eyes are you folks afraid of huldubians she asked why no he said of course not Then why are you giving Earth to them?" It was a soft question, but it trembled just a little.
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21:19Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
I thought all your people understood the reason by now," said Jorun.
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21:24Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Civilization, the civilization of man and his non-human allies, has moved inward toward the great star clusters of galactic center.
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This part of space means nothing to us any more.