Unveiling the Universe: Is Everything Alive?

Is the universe alive and aware?
Have we too narrowly defined what being alive means based due to our human biases?

Take a journey with me as I discuss the movement of the solar system, stars, Milky Way galaxy, and super structures like Laniakea and the cosmic web.
What is the galaxy doing as a whole system? Is it a type of super organism beyond our understanding?
What exactly is life? Have we too narrowly defined it based on our human biases? Why is it so hard to pin down where life starts and stops? Are we all part of the same universal process? All that and more in this video. Thanks for watching!

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DJ SADHU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
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Heliosphere - NASA/IBEX/ADLER PLANETARIUM

Heliotail video - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Krystofer Kim

Oort cloud - NASA

LIC cloud - By NASA/Goddard/Adler/U. Chicago/Wesleyan

Scholz's star - NASA/Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester/Illustration-T.Reyes
Scholz's star - José A. Peñas/SINC

Carina Nebula - NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Local bubble - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Black hole video - ESO/MPE - https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/

Fermi bubbles - NASA Goddard

Milky Way artist impression - ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt

Galaxy warp - ESA/Stefan Payne-Wardenaar

Orbits of the nearby stars around the galaxy - ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Galaxy diagram - NASA/JPL-Caltech; ESA/ATG medialab

Stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years - ESA - ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Nearby dwarf galaxies - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multim....edia/Images/2022/02/

Milky way galaxy halo - NASA, ESA, and A. Feild [STScI}

Center of galaxy/red giants - NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI), W. Clarkson (University of Michigan-Dearborn), and A. Calamida and K. Sahu (STScI)


Black hole - ESO/MPE - https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=11

Galaxy collision - NCSA, NASA, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist

Andromeda collision - NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy - ESA

Laniakea - Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=71

Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato - Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris, [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathemati....cal-physical-science illumination: what lights up the universe?], UCLA press release, 27 August 2014. flickr.com (high resolution version), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=34

Spinning filaments - A. KHALATYAN/J. FOHLMEISTER/AIP

Slime mold - AlbyDeTweede/iStock/Getty Images

Endospores - By Y tambe (original uploader) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=49

Shape of the Milky Way - Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)

Single cell - Haplochromis - selbst fotografiert von Haplochromis, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=52

Motion of stars around gaalxy - Pearson Education

Cells may be able to see near infrared light - https://www.science.org/doi/10.....1126/stke.2792005tw

Stars from other galaxies - ESA/Marchetti/NASA/Hubble

Local galaxy group - By Antonio Ciccolella - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=50

Virgo super cluster - By Fobos92 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=18

Laniakea - By Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/....w/index.php?curid=71

Gaia - ESA https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web..../gaia/edr3-startrail

Large scale flows in the Milky Way halo - Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI). Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Lehner and C. Howk (University of Notre Dame)

Laniakea - Nature Video - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15819

Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato

Galaxy filaments spinning - AIP/ A Khalatyan/ J Fohlmeister

Structure of universe - By NASA, ESA, and E. Hallman (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Millennium Simulation Project - https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mp....g.de/galform/virgo/m

James Webb - https://webbtelescope.org/videos

Galaxy Zoom - ESO/spaceengine.org/L.Calçada

Open Space Project

Music:
Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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