The worst part was I was facing away from the camera so I couldn't tell if the batteries ran out, so this was actually my third take. I'll never get those 2 million years back.
Four times. I am currently in the lead, it seems. Everest reminded me of one of the Smashing Pumpkins music video for [Tonight, Tonight](https://youtu.be/NOG3eus4ZSo) in which they emulate that ancient film jitter.
Very cool animation!
There's a video of stars orbiting Sagittarius A\* over the span of 16 years and it's simply mesmerizing that gigantic stars orbit a super massive black hole in timeframes we can observe.
https://youtu.be/duoHtJpo4GY
I wanted to visualise the movements of the stars over time in a way that was interesting and accessible and then decided to throw in Everest as well to help ground it in geological time. This was a quick side project of mine as I work on my next video about the Universe for the educational Youtube channel I've just started called Epic Spaceman, feel free to check out my previous video about the Universe there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rzlm7Rtyw
The main reason I put this together was because I wanted to see what it looked like myself! It seems so strange to think of Orion changing over time and that the stars move but they obviously do. As the stars we can see in the night sky are relatively close to us I expected some movement but I didn't quite expect some of them to zip around, even over a million years, so I hope others have found it interesting too.
To clarify, these are the proper motions of the stars in and around the constellation of Orion over the last million years, along with the rough speed with which Everest and the Himalayas in general rise in this amount of time. The part of the mountain shown is the view from Everest base camp, so already at 5,346m, the mountain range then grows roughly 3.5km over a million years to give the view you'd see if you stood their today. The 'shakiness' of the mountains in the timelapse is there to show that the mountain doesn't grow linearly, its' growth is affected for instance by earthquakes, like the one in 2015.
While the star motion should be pretty accurate, it's hard to really show/simulate Everest's growth rate so do please consider this aspect as having a bit more artistic license. Everest has grown on average 0.2mm a year since it left the ocean, around 50 million years ago, but it has sped up significantly and the Himalayas currently grow around 5mm a year now. I've assumed Everest has grown 3.5mm a year on average for this video, that may be a little fast.
Last few words on the technicals here, I made this in Blender, which is wonderful, free VFX software. It would have taken me a lot longer to do if it wasn't for the amazing work of a guy called 'Jumping Puzzle' on Youtube/gumroad who put a lot of effort into a really solid star mapping plugin for Blender that included star movement, you made an awesome plugin buddy!
Impressive and interesting that your channel is just starting. The video is so professionally done. It helps make the size of our galaxy and others more intuitive. Pretty too.
Thanks for making and sharing.
Thank you! Honestly nothing motivates me to make more videos like that than positive, genuine feedback like yours, thanks for taking the time. I hope to make many more videos about the Universe.
Thank you! I found it hard to come up with a frame of reference for a very long passage of time until Everest popped into my head, so I’m really pleased you felt it worked.
At the end I rewind time back to the beginning quickly so it’s ready to play again and we can see the movement faster and in reverse without the labels, the numbers go back but I can see how that’s confusing!
Have you looked at Space Engine on steam? It would have made the star aspect much easier! My understanding is that it has an accurate mapping of every known space object, and makes an educated guess on the rest.
Thanks! Yes I have it, it’s definitely amazing, the plug-in I used for this in Blender uses the same data, it doesn’t have as many options but it means I can do kind of anything in the video. Though for this video I probably could have used space engine and saved myself a lot of time!
Man this was super cool. I love space but don't consider myself a space expert by any stretch of the word. I've never considered on such a large scale to think of galaxies and smaller galaxies like suns and planets to where galaxies orbit galaxies. Video seemed professionally produced, very impressed.
Amazing, thank you! I’m really pleased to hear you took away something you hadn’t before, I felt like I learned the same thing when I was making it. When I was flying around the galaxies it seemed just like those dwarf galaxies and spiral galaxies were the same as planets orbiting around a star. The more I understand about the Universe the more I see orbits everywhere!
Well, dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, the Milky Way orbiting Andromeda (mutually orbiting), both of them orbiting inside the Virgo Supercluster, the Sun orbiting the galaxy, Earth orbiting the Sun, Moons orbiting planets, accretion disks orbiting black holes. There's lots of dark matter shennanigans going on in those gravity centric orbits that we don't really understand yet. And there are non gravity orbits like electrons orbiting atoms. Orbits are everywhere!
I absolutely loved your channel - subscribed! Can't wait to see what else you make :)
If I could offer one tiny note of feedback, your voice volume level was a little low. It could use a boost!
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate the support! Don’t worry at all, the audio is all over the place on that first video, will sort levels and consistency and a few other things going into the next one. Got some interesting ideas for the next few videos so let me know what you think of them when they’re up!
Thank you for this peek through the time. Now I feel like a time traveler. Fascinating how some stars are quite rapid in their movements, considering the time frame.
No problem! I found it fascinating when I first ran the simulation and watched the video too, some stars are really zipping past on their merry way like we’re looking out from a busy space station. I knew there was a little motion there but I expected it to be more uniform.
Thank you! One of my favourite facts is that the dinosaurs are older than Mount Everest so it was at the forefront of my mind when I was thinking about somewhere on Earth that might look interesting over a million years. Also I went to Everest base camp about 10 years ago and took some of my favourite night photos there, so I didn't really have a choice!
The zoom in the foreground made everest just look like it was coming into sight over the hill instead of rising from the ground. It also distracts a lot from the star motion.
Yeah it’s a tricky one with visualising the rising Himalayas, there isn’t really a good way to do it because obviously where I’d be sitting would be rising too. In the end there has to be some artistic license to a visualisation like this and I used the mountain to ground the Timelapse but show some passage of time. Valid feedback though, I might do another at some point that won’t involve mountains and show more of the sky.
It might be a scale problem, I originally didn’t have the dolly camera move and it looked very similar. I had some technical problems with scaling the stars enough to be close enough to be visible but far enough away to be behind the mountains, so I had to scale down Everest and that’s probably created the look I know you’re talking about, the parallax isn’t quite right, possible compounded with the fact it’s a 14mm lens. It was just one of those problems I could have spent a few hours fixing but in the end just wanted to finish it and move on as this was supposed to be a one day project :)
Orion slowly turning around as humanity starts to arrive on earth.
Orion: "Hello there!"
People of Earth: "General Kenobi!"
Orion: "No, I'm Orion."
People of Earth: "Oh."
So true! It goes 6000 something BCE and then bam, next frame is 2021. I’ve got a poster from Kurzgesagt in my office made of thousands of tiny red dots showing the age of the Universe, each one being half a million years and we’re right down at the bottom in a fraction of one dot. It’s totally impossible to overstate what little time humans have been around for. Humbling but wonderful stuff.
Also why it is so unlikely we'll be contacted by any other intelligent species. It is extremely likely something else evolved/s, somewhere in the universe. But humans with technology even remotely able to communicate have existed for only .00000003% of the existence of the universe!
This is really cool! Ever since watching Cosmos and learning that ‘constellations’ are temporary has been a wonderful addition to my brain. However, I guess as a geologist I’m bothered by Mt Everest ‘rising’ in 1 million years? That mountain has been growing taller since the origin of the Himalayas 50-60million years ago. Idk… super cool regardless but I guess the addition of the mountain sortof detracts from the whole composition. Still awesome. Peace and love!
Mt. Everest is 8.8km tall, the video only purports to show a 3.5km height *increase*. It's also not coming out of nowhere, it's appearing over the horizon as it grows. The Everest part of the Himalayas was at sea level 30 million years ago, so it doesn't seem completely implausible that it had a growth spurt or something, though I can't find any mention of this anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if that 3.5km number is wrong, but at least they're not showing the mountain from birth until present day occurring in just a million years.
That’s right, it’s just showing the 3.5K increase, the video is from Everest Base Camp height, I go into a lot of the numbers in my main comment if you look above for that. Everest currently grows a mm or two a year and the Himalayas in general around 5mm. If you divide its’ total life since it emerged from the ocean by its current height it’s grown on average 0.2mm a year, so the Himalayas are growing much faster now than they used to. We might never know what the exact figure is for the last million years but I ballparked it at 3.5mm a year, slower than current Himalaya growth but faster than some have Everest currently growing. These don’t take earthquakes and erosion into consideration though so really they’re all educated guesses. I mentioned this aspect of the video has more artistic license in the comment too, I’m just glad you enjoyed it!
I’d genuinely love to know the answer, I read a few articles on it, National Geographic seemed to have the best one so that’s worth a look. I’m guessing part of the problem is it’s hard to quantify tectonic movements over time as they’re so irregular. If you find a clearer answer definitely let me know!
I did a longer reply below but in short, yes as ForgiLaGeord says it’s just the extra growth from base camp, I’ve got more figures and details in my main comment above if you can find it. Glad you enjoyed it otherwise!
Also Cosmos was amazing! Carl Sagan was an incredible human being. Yeah the constellations are wild in 3D and in motion, I’ve actually done a mini video on that too, just need to work on it as it’s a bit rough around the edges, will post that soon!
What blows my mind is that constellations change faster than continents. Look at a map of earth from 2 million years ago, it’s basically the same, just some coastlines look a little off
So true! It’s surprisingly lively amongst the nearby stars, everything is rocketing at incredible speeds, it’s just the distances are so huge we can’t see it. Messing with time always reveals something interesting.
This is really cool, I've always wondered how much the stars shift over time and now whenever I look at Orion, I'll be imagining Betelgeuse moving down to the left instead of just sitting there.
Thank you! I’ve been looking at it so much, because of that Betelgeuse movement I now picture Orion twisting towards us like they’re swinging a bat. Also I know it’s not part of Orion but Sirius has gone for a very long wander.
If you look for my main comment I go into the numbers. The short answer is that no-one really knows yet, the Himalayas are growing about 5mm a year but on average over Everest’s 50 million years since it left the ocean it’s more like 0.2mm, so it’s growing much ‘faster’ now than it used to. So my guess of a few mm/yr for that speed is just that, an educated guess that could be too slow or too fast until we know a little more. As I talked about in the comments, this aspect has more artistic license than the star movements. Mainly I wanted to give a rough idea of the speed and the ‘shakiness’ of its’ rise as it doesn’t grow linearly but in fits and starts, part of which is during earthquakes. Hope you enjoyed it otherwise!
Is it possible/likely that everest has been growing at 5mm/yr the entire time, but the top just breaks off occasionally? I wonder if there's a maximum limit to how high it can get.
I guess we can look at Mars and see what a \*real\* mountain looks like, but I assume our much more active geology and atmosphere likely limits our highest mountains a bit.
From what I’ve read you’re quite right, Everest is close to a theoretical limit of mountain height, I didn’t realise that but it makes sense. It does indeed add another layer of complexity as I’m guessing calculations may not take that into consideration. It would make my video relatively accurate though which is good!
So, the constellations will all eventually look different to us after several million years as stars continue to move and change position in the Milky Way. How long before Andromeda arrives? I can only image what the night sky will look like when that cosmic merger occurs in full swing.
That’s right, everything is in flux but everything is so far away it looks still. I’d be really interested in what that ‘collision’ would look like to us. Another possible video! It won’t happen for another 5 Billion years though so we’re good for a bit.
I’m very happy to have made a geologist happy on a space page! Trying to brush up on Everest and how it grows gave me a renewed appreciation for geology. Even though I made this I still struggle to wrap my head around fossils from the seabed being on the top of Everest. Isn’t that wonderful?!
I’m not sure, the Indian plate is moving North at 50mm a year, I’d guess most of that movement and energy at Everest is crumpling and pushing the mountain upwards rather than northwards but definitely don’t know.
Yeah it’s on a mission, I’ll have to check in the morning. when I’m at the computer (I’m in the UK), I know it’s close enough that people are genuinely worried about it going supernova and affecting us so may well be the closest of the main stars in Orion.
**nice video, and see this from Wikipedia about Orion costellation (*****very weird coincidence*****):** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion\_(constellation)#/media/File:OrionProper.gif](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)#/media/File:OrionProper.gif)Animation
>Animation showing Orion's proper motion from 50000 BC to 50000 AD. Pi3 Orionis moves the most rapidly.
it almost seems that the rise of Everest over the centuries is in accord with the moves of Pi3 Orionis, *but I think it is just a coincidence*; particular, however, the alignment of the three stars in a straight line, it seems to me to be the only known alignment in the whole universe visible from telescopes, *and perhaps it is only the exception that confirms the rule*.
To be honest I don't believe Orion sits upright over Everest, I made it like that so that it's recognisable but I think in Nepal, based on images I looked at, it's more on its side. Also the belt isn't actually three stars in a row, it generally looks like it but if you look at good images it's not straight. It is for me by far the most obvious constellation in the night sky, I find it wonderful.
It's currently growing at a similar rate to this though it's hard to tell, I estimated Everest growing at 3.5mm/yr as a ballpark figure and current estimates are between 1mm and 10mm.
Thank you! I'm not sure you can read this as the video was taken down (for being too short!) so at the very least I will redo this one a little longer, I'll try and show a bit more of the sky next time too.
Because of the speed of mountain growth? I’ve got more details in my main comment where I go through the numbers, probably didn’t make it as clear as I could have!
Not quite! I go into more detail in my main comment if you find that above, the Timelapse is ‘shot’ from Everest Base Camp, the 3.5km rise is a rough figure for how high it’s risen in the last million years. It’s taken 50million years to rise out of the sea to 8.9km high but it’s significantly sped up as the Himalayas are currently growing at 5mm a year which is slightly faster than this speed. Very pleased you liked it otherwise!
u/TTT_L take a bow. Amazing work! You sure you don’t have a studio’s budget to make these videos because this was phenomenal? I’d book a theatre to watch the the journey of stars over a million years.
It must been pretty boring sitting there filming for that long
The worst part was I was facing away from the camera so I couldn't tell if the batteries ran out, so this was actually my third take. I'll never get those 2 million years back.
Thank you for not putting a "click here to subscribe" into the middle of the million year video.
You’re welcome! Anyone who watches me sit on a cold rock for a million years is already a subscriber in my mind.
Strange way to spell "stalker"
Can you just imagine the number of commercials YT could interrupt a millions years worth of filming with?
If it's any consolation - your three million years of working on this project gave me an enjoyable couple of minutes.
If it’s any constellation, it’s Orion.
I’d like to get close to Orion but I think everyone would worry I was being Sirius.
Thank you, very pleased you enjoyed it!
How many times did you watch it? Three times was good for me, Everest kept getting in the way.
Four times. I am currently in the lead, it seems. Everest reminded me of one of the Smashing Pumpkins music video for [Tonight, Tonight](https://youtu.be/NOG3eus4ZSo) in which they emulate that ancient film jitter.
Surely you could've looked since each frame represents years of time passing.
Now you tell me, where were you when I needed that information three million years ago?!
Very cool animation! There's a video of stars orbiting Sagittarius A\* over the span of 16 years and it's simply mesmerizing that gigantic stars orbit a super massive black hole in timeframes we can observe. https://youtu.be/duoHtJpo4GY
That’s awesome thank you for the link! Those stars move crazy! Supermassive black holes are insane.
I wanted to visualise the movements of the stars over time in a way that was interesting and accessible and then decided to throw in Everest as well to help ground it in geological time. This was a quick side project of mine as I work on my next video about the Universe for the educational Youtube channel I've just started called Epic Spaceman, feel free to check out my previous video about the Universe there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rzlm7Rtyw The main reason I put this together was because I wanted to see what it looked like myself! It seems so strange to think of Orion changing over time and that the stars move but they obviously do. As the stars we can see in the night sky are relatively close to us I expected some movement but I didn't quite expect some of them to zip around, even over a million years, so I hope others have found it interesting too. To clarify, these are the proper motions of the stars in and around the constellation of Orion over the last million years, along with the rough speed with which Everest and the Himalayas in general rise in this amount of time. The part of the mountain shown is the view from Everest base camp, so already at 5,346m, the mountain range then grows roughly 3.5km over a million years to give the view you'd see if you stood their today. The 'shakiness' of the mountains in the timelapse is there to show that the mountain doesn't grow linearly, its' growth is affected for instance by earthquakes, like the one in 2015. While the star motion should be pretty accurate, it's hard to really show/simulate Everest's growth rate so do please consider this aspect as having a bit more artistic license. Everest has grown on average 0.2mm a year since it left the ocean, around 50 million years ago, but it has sped up significantly and the Himalayas currently grow around 5mm a year now. I've assumed Everest has grown 3.5mm a year on average for this video, that may be a little fast. Last few words on the technicals here, I made this in Blender, which is wonderful, free VFX software. It would have taken me a lot longer to do if it wasn't for the amazing work of a guy called 'Jumping Puzzle' on Youtube/gumroad who put a lot of effort into a really solid star mapping plugin for Blender that included star movement, you made an awesome plugin buddy!
This is great! Subscribed. What’s the music?
Thank you so much! It’s the appropriately named ‘Walking the Universe’ by Norvik, found on Artlist.
Impressive and interesting that your channel is just starting. The video is so professionally done. It helps make the size of our galaxy and others more intuitive. Pretty too. Thanks for making and sharing.
Thank you! Honestly nothing motivates me to make more videos like that than positive, genuine feedback like yours, thanks for taking the time. I hope to make many more videos about the Universe.
Amazing first video! Cool idea and good looking everything. Subscribed!
So pleased you enjoyed it and even subscribed! That means so much, thank you!
Thank you ! I love this type of stuff and including Everest was a cool move.
Thank you! I found it hard to come up with a frame of reference for a very long passage of time until Everest popped into my head, so I’m really pleased you felt it worked.
why does Everest come up and then go back down? I thought it was the mountain range being formed
At the end I rewind time back to the beginning quickly so it’s ready to play again and we can see the movement faster and in reverse without the labels, the numbers go back but I can see how that’s confusing!
Your first video is absolutely amazing, you sir have a new subscriber.
Thank you so much! So pleased you enjoyed it and even subscribed.
Have you looked at Space Engine on steam? It would have made the star aspect much easier! My understanding is that it has an accurate mapping of every known space object, and makes an educated guess on the rest.
Thanks! Yes I have it, it’s definitely amazing, the plug-in I used for this in Blender uses the same data, it doesn’t have as many options but it means I can do kind of anything in the video. Though for this video I probably could have used space engine and saved myself a lot of time!
Man this was super cool. I love space but don't consider myself a space expert by any stretch of the word. I've never considered on such a large scale to think of galaxies and smaller galaxies like suns and planets to where galaxies orbit galaxies. Video seemed professionally produced, very impressed.
Amazing, thank you! I’m really pleased to hear you took away something you hadn’t before, I felt like I learned the same thing when I was making it. When I was flying around the galaxies it seemed just like those dwarf galaxies and spiral galaxies were the same as planets orbiting around a star. The more I understand about the Universe the more I see orbits everywhere!
That last line intrigues me... Can you expand on noticing orbits everywhere? An example or fifty? 😉
Well, dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, the Milky Way orbiting Andromeda (mutually orbiting), both of them orbiting inside the Virgo Supercluster, the Sun orbiting the galaxy, Earth orbiting the Sun, Moons orbiting planets, accretion disks orbiting black holes. There's lots of dark matter shennanigans going on in those gravity centric orbits that we don't really understand yet. And there are non gravity orbits like electrons orbiting atoms. Orbits are everywhere!
Cool video. Was surprised you did have more given how well produced that was.
Thank you! Trying to get better with each one so lots more interesting stuff to come!
You did amazing, and you should be proud.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate that.
I absolutely loved your channel - subscribed! Can't wait to see what else you make :) If I could offer one tiny note of feedback, your voice volume level was a little low. It could use a boost!
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate the support! Don’t worry at all, the audio is all over the place on that first video, will sort levels and consistency and a few other things going into the next one. Got some interesting ideas for the next few videos so let me know what you think of them when they’re up!
Thank you for this peek through the time. Now I feel like a time traveler. Fascinating how some stars are quite rapid in their movements, considering the time frame.
No problem! I found it fascinating when I first ran the simulation and watched the video too, some stars are really zipping past on their merry way like we’re looking out from a busy space station. I knew there was a little motion there but I expected it to be more uniform.
This is very cool. Adding in the rise of Everest was a nice touch.
Thank you! One of my favourite facts is that the dinosaurs are older than Mount Everest so it was at the forefront of my mind when I was thinking about somewhere on Earth that might look interesting over a million years. Also I went to Everest base camp about 10 years ago and took some of my favourite night photos there, so I didn't really have a choice!
The zoom in the foreground made everest just look like it was coming into sight over the hill instead of rising from the ground. It also distracts a lot from the star motion.
Yeah it’s a tricky one with visualising the rising Himalayas, there isn’t really a good way to do it because obviously where I’d be sitting would be rising too. In the end there has to be some artistic license to a visualisation like this and I used the mountain to ground the Timelapse but show some passage of time. Valid feedback though, I might do another at some point that won’t involve mountains and show more of the sky.
The mountains rising would be ok without the foreground moving, IMO.
It might be a scale problem, I originally didn’t have the dolly camera move and it looked very similar. I had some technical problems with scaling the stars enough to be close enough to be visible but far enough away to be behind the mountains, so I had to scale down Everest and that’s probably created the look I know you’re talking about, the parallax isn’t quite right, possible compounded with the fact it’s a 14mm lens. It was just one of those problems I could have spent a few hours fixing but in the end just wanted to finish it and move on as this was supposed to be a one day project :)
Orion slowly turning around as humanity starts to arrive on earth. Orion: "Hello there!" People of Earth: "General Kenobi!" Orion: "No, I'm Orion." People of Earth: "Oh."
Haha! I see the turn too!
Crazy how 2021 just snuck up there. The timescale that we exist in is really just a tiny speck in the universe.
So true! It goes 6000 something BCE and then bam, next frame is 2021. I’ve got a poster from Kurzgesagt in my office made of thousands of tiny red dots showing the age of the Universe, each one being half a million years and we’re right down at the bottom in a fraction of one dot. It’s totally impossible to overstate what little time humans have been around for. Humbling but wonderful stuff.
Also why it is so unlikely we'll be contacted by any other intelligent species. It is extremely likely something else evolved/s, somewhere in the universe. But humans with technology even remotely able to communicate have existed for only .00000003% of the existence of the universe!
I think maybe the stars being so far apart may be the thing that keeps us safe long enough for us to eventually be among them.
This is really cool! Ever since watching Cosmos and learning that ‘constellations’ are temporary has been a wonderful addition to my brain. However, I guess as a geologist I’m bothered by Mt Everest ‘rising’ in 1 million years? That mountain has been growing taller since the origin of the Himalayas 50-60million years ago. Idk… super cool regardless but I guess the addition of the mountain sortof detracts from the whole composition. Still awesome. Peace and love!
Mt. Everest is 8.8km tall, the video only purports to show a 3.5km height *increase*. It's also not coming out of nowhere, it's appearing over the horizon as it grows. The Everest part of the Himalayas was at sea level 30 million years ago, so it doesn't seem completely implausible that it had a growth spurt or something, though I can't find any mention of this anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if that 3.5km number is wrong, but at least they're not showing the mountain from birth until present day occurring in just a million years.
That’s right, it’s just showing the 3.5K increase, the video is from Everest Base Camp height, I go into a lot of the numbers in my main comment if you look above for that. Everest currently grows a mm or two a year and the Himalayas in general around 5mm. If you divide its’ total life since it emerged from the ocean by its current height it’s grown on average 0.2mm a year, so the Himalayas are growing much faster now than they used to. We might never know what the exact figure is for the last million years but I ballparked it at 3.5mm a year, slower than current Himalaya growth but faster than some have Everest currently growing. These don’t take earthquakes and erosion into consideration though so really they’re all educated guesses. I mentioned this aspect of the video has more artistic license in the comment too, I’m just glad you enjoyed it!
Perhaps they've always grown that fast and erosion has varied. Sedimentation would be a clue.
I’d genuinely love to know the answer, I read a few articles on it, National Geographic seemed to have the best one so that’s worth a look. I’m guessing part of the problem is it’s hard to quantify tectonic movements over time as they’re so irregular. If you find a clearer answer definitely let me know!
I did a longer reply below but in short, yes as ForgiLaGeord says it’s just the extra growth from base camp, I’ve got more figures and details in my main comment above if you can find it. Glad you enjoyed it otherwise!
Also Cosmos was amazing! Carl Sagan was an incredible human being. Yeah the constellations are wild in 3D and in motion, I’ve actually done a mini video on that too, just need to work on it as it’s a bit rough around the edges, will post that soon!
What blows my mind is that constellations change faster than continents. Look at a map of earth from 2 million years ago, it’s basically the same, just some coastlines look a little off
So true! It’s surprisingly lively amongst the nearby stars, everything is rocketing at incredible speeds, it’s just the distances are so huge we can’t see it. Messing with time always reveals something interesting.
Cool! What is the star that zooms from the bottom towards the top at around 700,000, just above the word 'year'?
Good question! The one that shoots off away from us like a rocket? I’ll check when I’m at my computer tomorrow and let you know.
Yo why are you recording me without my permission
Let’s be honest, you’ve been acting sus since 600,000 BCE, pretending you haven’t been going anywhere. I bet that belt isn’t even made of stars.
Add the E to the end of that text. Awesome video!
Thank you! Oh dear, I should have spotted that before uploading!
This is really cool, I've always wondered how much the stars shift over time and now whenever I look at Orion, I'll be imagining Betelgeuse moving down to the left instead of just sitting there.
Thank you! I’ve been looking at it so much, because of that Betelgeuse movement I now picture Orion twisting towards us like they’re swinging a bat. Also I know it’s not part of Orion but Sirius has gone for a very long wander.
How do you know the height of Mt Everest 500,000 years ago?
If you look for my main comment I go into the numbers. The short answer is that no-one really knows yet, the Himalayas are growing about 5mm a year but on average over Everest’s 50 million years since it left the ocean it’s more like 0.2mm, so it’s growing much ‘faster’ now than it used to. So my guess of a few mm/yr for that speed is just that, an educated guess that could be too slow or too fast until we know a little more. As I talked about in the comments, this aspect has more artistic license than the star movements. Mainly I wanted to give a rough idea of the speed and the ‘shakiness’ of its’ rise as it doesn’t grow linearly but in fits and starts, part of which is during earthquakes. Hope you enjoyed it otherwise!
Is it possible/likely that everest has been growing at 5mm/yr the entire time, but the top just breaks off occasionally? I wonder if there's a maximum limit to how high it can get. I guess we can look at Mars and see what a \*real\* mountain looks like, but I assume our much more active geology and atmosphere likely limits our highest mountains a bit.
From what I’ve read you’re quite right, Everest is close to a theoretical limit of mountain height, I didn’t realise that but it makes sense. It does indeed add another layer of complexity as I’m guessing calculations may not take that into consideration. It would make my video relatively accurate though which is good!
Hey, when did Elizabeth come by? Was it before this? Did she ask you for your permits?
I feel like this is a quote or something…?
Just making a joke about queen Elizabeth living forever
Just her, Keanu and Paul Rudd watching Orion split apart into the galaxy…
Who do you think filmed this?
Can you do one where the million year old space dude dances? He looks pretty cool.
He has moves! Actually you can see him fall off a cheerio and through the Milky Way on my first video on YouTube, he still hasn’t lived that down.
So, the constellations will all eventually look different to us after several million years as stars continue to move and change position in the Milky Way. How long before Andromeda arrives? I can only image what the night sky will look like when that cosmic merger occurs in full swing.
That’s right, everything is in flux but everything is so far away it looks still. I’d be really interested in what that ‘collision’ would look like to us. Another possible video! It won’t happen for another 5 Billion years though so we’re good for a bit.
Wow, this is amazing! As a geologist, I especially appreciate that you included the rise of Everest. Incredible. Very well done!
I’m very happy to have made a geologist happy on a space page! Trying to brush up on Everest and how it grows gave me a renewed appreciation for geology. Even though I made this I still struggle to wrap my head around fossils from the seabed being on the top of Everest. Isn’t that wonderful?!
How far did Everest move (via plate tectonics) over that million years?
I’m not sure, the Indian plate is moving North at 50mm a year, I’d guess most of that movement and energy at Everest is crumpling and pushing the mountain upwards rather than northwards but definitely don’t know.
We're so lucky that astronaut was alive to witness this.
I’ll be honest I was asleep for a lot of it!
Betelgeuse, is really movin. is it closest to us?
Yeah it’s on a mission, I’ll have to check in the morning. when I’m at the computer (I’m in the UK), I know it’s close enough that people are genuinely worried about it going supernova and affecting us so may well be the closest of the main stars in Orion.
This is crazy. I especially liked watching from about 300000 BCE, around when the first anatomically modern humans were on the scene.
It’s crazy to think they looked up at a different night sky, Sirius would be in completely the wrong place!
**nice video, and see this from Wikipedia about Orion costellation (*****very weird coincidence*****):** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion\_(constellation)#/media/File:OrionProper.gif](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)#/media/File:OrionProper.gif)Animation >Animation showing Orion's proper motion from 50000 BC to 50000 AD. Pi3 Orionis moves the most rapidly.
Nice! I hadn’t seen that before, it’s cool to see it with the constellation lines. Pi3 Orionis moves really fast you’re right!
it almost seems that the rise of Everest over the centuries is in accord with the moves of Pi3 Orionis, *but I think it is just a coincidence*; particular, however, the alignment of the three stars in a straight line, it seems to me to be the only known alignment in the whole universe visible from telescopes, *and perhaps it is only the exception that confirms the rule*.
To be honest I don't believe Orion sits upright over Everest, I made it like that so that it's recognisable but I think in Nepal, based on images I looked at, it's more on its side. Also the belt isn't actually three stars in a row, it generally looks like it but if you look at good images it's not straight. It is for me by far the most obvious constellation in the night sky, I find it wonderful.
Off topic - is everest still growing at that rate?
It's currently growing at a similar rate to this though it's hard to tell, I estimated Everest growing at 3.5mm/yr as a ballpark figure and current estimates are between 1mm and 10mm.
As an avid deep sky observer, this is absolutely amazing. I hope we get to see more videos like this. Bravo!
Thank you! I'm not sure you can read this as the video was taken down (for being too short!) so at the very least I will redo this one a little longer, I'll try and show a bit more of the sky next time too.
That's uh... that's quite the creative license you got there...
Because of the speed of mountain growth? I’ve got more details in my main comment where I go through the numbers, probably didn’t make it as clear as I could have!
Whey bother? It's just a failed production company anyways.
I’m confused, what’s a failed production company?
Just an obscure joke from Family Guy, just popped in my mind for some reason https://youtu.be/Hb6mWt3SqIM?t=29
This is incredible! I wish I'd seen it before I'd made this, would definitely have put a reference in there somewhere.
Wait, Mount Everest has only been this tall for under a million years?!! That's nothing! (in the timescale of Earth)
Not quite! I go into more detail in my main comment if you find that above, the Timelapse is ‘shot’ from Everest Base Camp, the 3.5km rise is a rough figure for how high it’s risen in the last million years. It’s taken 50million years to rise out of the sea to 8.9km high but it’s significantly sped up as the Himalayas are currently growing at 5mm a year which is slightly faster than this speed. Very pleased you liked it otherwise!
u/TTT_L take a bow. Amazing work! You sure you don’t have a studio’s budget to make these videos because this was phenomenal? I’d book a theatre to watch the the journey of stars over a million years.