What If Earth Was Near the Center of the Milky Way?

Channel:
United States What If
Subscribers:
8,750,000
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxcmGNbwVrw


Duration: 4:39
2,230,585 views
45,162

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening in its center. What would it be like to reside in its galactic downtown? Would we still have our familiar Sun? What would our night sky look like? Would we get sucked into a black hole?

Transcript and sources: https://insh.world/science/what-if-earth-was-near-the-center-of-the-milky-way/

Made possible with the support of Ontario Creates http://www.ontariocreates.ca

Watch more what-if scenarios:
Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-HhCwYD7rc&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJCzxwmCq0NNpYq9N9wyb2l
The Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuJyVkMH_g&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJno6oFF9nLGuwXNGYHmE8U
Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3bBO05fpU&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTIeRY3JtgXgoGqSEB7kDdKO
Your Body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmXR46TrbA8&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJNsV9FFeNAKl2ySsHj8GZO
Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdCDQIyXGnw&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTIFnvmOeWbv-Mt8zFxSCSvZ

Follow what-if on Instagram for bonus material: https://www.instagram.com/what.if.show/
Suggest an episode: http://bit.ly/suggest-whatif
T-shirts and merch: http://bit.ly/whatifshop
Facebook Watch: https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science
Watch on Tubi: http://bit.ly/what-if-tubi

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere." — Carl Sagan

If you enjoy What If, make sure to check out our other channel "Underknown": https://www.youtube.com/c/interestingshit

Produced by Underknown in Toronto, What If is a mini-documentary web series that takes you on an epic journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities. Join us on an imaginary adventure — grounded in scientific theory — through time, space and chance, as we ask what if some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence were different.
Feedback, inquiries and suggestions: https://underknown.com/contact



Other Videos By What If


2019-08-01What Happens If You Fall Into a Pool Full of Sharks?
2019-07-30What Happens If You Eat Mold?
2019-07-28What If a Gamma-Ray Burst Hits the Earth?
2019-07-26What Happens If You Don't Shower for a Month?
2019-07-24What Happens If You Fall Into Quicksand?
2019-07-22What If We Moved Earth?
2019-07-20What If Every Dead Person Was Still Alive?
2019-07-18What Happens If One Million People Actually Stormed Area 51?
2019-07-17What Happens If You Fall Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen?
2019-07-15What If You Were the First Person on Mars?
2019-07-13What If Earth Was Near the Center of the Milky Way?
2019-07-11What If We Planted a Trillion Trees?
2019-07-09What if Earth Had Rings Like Saturn?
2019-07-07What If You Had X-Ray Vision?
2019-07-05What If Earth Had a Large Elliptical Orbit?
2019-07-03What If the Speed of Light and Sound Were Switched?
2019-07-01What If the Neanderthals Had Not Gone Extinct?
2019-06-29What If Earth’s Atmosphere Was Pure Oxygen?
2019-06-27What If We Had Thermal Vision?
2019-06-25What If the Earth Collided With Another Planet?
2019-06-23What If Humans Were 5 Meters (16ft) Tall?


Tags:
what if
what happens if
scifi
science documentary
what if scenario
scientific answers to hypothetical questions
biggest questions in science
milky way
what's in the center of milky way
milky way galaxy
earth in the milky way galaxy
milky way center
galaxy documentary
orion arm
andromeda and milky way
dangerous scenarios from space
black hole in the milky way galaxy
galactic center
supermassive black hole
inside the milky way
earth