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! Credits: DJ SADHU - Please go check out his music! 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/ 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 - 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 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 - , CC BY 4.0, 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, Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato - Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris, [ illumination: what lights up the universe?], UCLA press release, 27 August 2014. (high resolution version), CC BY 2.0, 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, Shape of the Milky Way - Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech) Single cell - Haplochromis - selbst fotografiert von Haplochromis, Public Domain, Motion of stars around gaalxy - Pearson Education Cells may be able to see near infrared light - #:~:text=The ability of cells to,information to direct their movements. Stars from other galaxies - ESA/Marchetti/NASA/Hubble Local galaxy group - By Antonio Ciccolella - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Virgo super cluster - By Fobos92 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Laniakea - By Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Gaia - ESA 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 - 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 - James Webb - Galaxy Zoom - ESO/çada Open Space Project Music: Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Source: Artist: