Meet the Galaxies (and More…)– Part 1 – A Song About Astronomy by In A World Music Kids & The Nirks™
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It’s time to Meet the Galaxies – and more! This is the final installment of our 2019 series of songs about astronomy and space. Join Vincent as he takes you on a journey through the universe to meet several different and unique types of galaxies. You’ll meet a spiral Galaxy, an Elliptical Galaxy, an Irregular Galaxy, a Peculiar Galaxy, a Lenticular Galaxy, a Barred Spiral Galaxy and even a QUASAR!!! (The brightest objects in the universe.)
© July 2019 by Goes to Eleven Media. All Rights Reserved.
Lyrics:
Swirling through Space are clusters of billions of stars
Bound by gravity, some are close and some are far
Collections of stars, gas and dust
Each grouping is unique
These groups are known as galaxies
Let’s see who we can meet
CHORUS: They/We are Galaxies
Travelling at great velocity
Held together by gravity
Cosmic Mysteries
We are Galaxies
Several different kinds for you to see
Some common and some anomalies
It’s time for you to Meet…
I’m the Milky Way
The Galaxy where you are from
I’m a Spiral Galaxy
I have reaching spiraled Arms
My stars, gas and dust
gather in my spiral arms that reach
outward from my center
as we swirl across the breach
Messier 87 (red) an elliptical Galaxy
In the Virgo Cluster is where you’ll find me
I’ve got a black hole at the center of me
With an ejection jet for all to see
I’m elliptically shaped, with no special features
No spiraled arms, No internal structure
I’m an old supergiant elliptical Galaxy
There very little gas or dust left in me
I’m the small Magellanic Cloud
Quite unique, of this I’m proud
I’m an Irregular Dwarf Galaxy
I’m small and oddly shaped, you see
I’m full of stellar matter, gas and dust
Making new stars, bright and mysterious
I travel with the Large Magellanic Cloud
We’re orbiting our Neighbor the Milky Way now
CHORUS
We are the merging Antennae Galaxies
We collided hundreds of millions of years ago you see
We are classified as a Peculiar Galaxy
Because, we’re very different and shaped abnormally
We’re also known as a Starburst Galaxy
Because our star formation rate is very high and happening rapidly
NGC 4111
A special type of Galaxy, I am one
in the constellation Canes Venatici
I’m known as a lenticular galaxy, Why?
My shape is between spiral and elliptical
I have no arms but a great central bulge
Surrounded by a flattened disk
I’m not a sight that you should miss
I’m NGC 1365
The Fornax Constellation is where I reside
One of the largest galaxies I’m huge in size
200,000 light years across, I’m wide
!
I’m The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy
A Bright center and Bar of old stars across me
I have very prominent blue spiral arms
Which add to my unending charm
CHORUS
I am quasar 3C 273
I emit large amounts of energy
I ‘m the bright center of a galaxy,
Powered by a black hole at the center of me
The Brightest objects in the universe
I’m the quasar that was discovered first
In a large elliptical galaxy far away
In the constellation Virgo is where I stay
CHORUS
©July 2019. By Goes to Elven Media. All Rights Reserved.