00:00Did you know that we live inside a milk highway in space?
00:03The Milky Way got its name because the Greeks saw a path of milk in the sky.
00:08This whitish glow becomes even more visible on dark nights, far from cities.
00:14The Tembé indigenous people, in southern Pará, called the galaxy the Tapir's Path.
00:20For them, the sky showed the cycles of nature and the seasons.
00:25With the telescope, the scientists discovered...
00:27The Milky Way is the combined brightness of up to 250 billion stars.
00:34The heart of the Milky Way is located in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
00:38It is the brightest region and home to a gigantic black hole.
00:43Our galaxy emerged shortly after the Big Bang, from clouds of hydrogen, helium, and cosmic dust.
00:51The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with three parts: a disk, a central bulge, and a halo, all rotating in the universe.
00:59It is approximately 13.6 billion years old, and crossing it at the speed of light would take 100,000 years.
01:06Anyone who looks at the dark sky has already seen a piece of the Milky Way and now knows that they live in one of them.
01:12The longest roads in the universe.
01:15Enjoyed it? Then get ready to hitch a ride on this comet's tail.
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