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It's time to Meet more Galaxies with Vincent and The Nirks®! Join Vincent as he ventures out into the universe to meet some amazing galaxies. We'll meet spiral galaxies, colliding galaxies, starburst galaxies and even a smiling galaxy cluster! Galaxies featured in this video include, NGC 1398 A Double Ring Galaxy, The Sombrero Galaxy a galaxy with a super massive black hole that looks like a sombrero hat, The Skyrocket Galaxy that looks like a rocket, Mayall's Object two colliding galaxies, The Cigar Galaxy A starburst galaxy with billions of stars, The Eye two interacting galaxies that are always watching, The Comet Galaxy a fast moving galaxy that looks like a comet, and the smiling galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849!


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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 are galaxies, traveling at great velocity
Held together by gravity, cosmic mysteries
Galaxies, several different kinds for you to see
Some common and some anomalies, it's time for you to meet..

NGC 1398 an isolated barred spiral galaxy
With a double Ring structure, I’m a lovely sight to see
Drifting on my own 65 million light years away from Earth
In the constellation Fornax, I wander through the Universe


They call me Sombrero Galaxy
From the side I look like a sombrero hat you see
I’m an unbarred Spiral Galaxy
With a large nucleus and thick dust lanes in me
At my center is a supermassive black hole
As massive as a billion suns or so
Moving away from the Milky Way at extreme velocity
In the constellation Virgo, You’ll find me

The skyrocket galaxy, that is me
A spectacular elongated dwarf galaxy
I’m a bit of a rarity
There are very few tadpole shaped galaxies like me
There’s a firestorm of star formation in my head region
And lots of holes from supernova detonations
I’m like an epic cosmic fireworks display
Look for me in Ursa major today

CHORUS

A peculiar & ring galaxy, we’re Mayall’s Object, an anomaly
The result of a collision of two very different galaxies
Our collision caused a shock wave changing both our structures drastically
In the Constellation Ursa Major, we’re transforming into a whole new entity

M82 or the Cigar Galaxy
You have an edge on side view of me
A Spiral Star Burst Galaxy you could say
With new stars forming 10 times faster than in the Milky Way
Radiation from newborn stars creates galactic winds
That compress the surrounding gas into more new stars, millions
Eventually, all gas will be consumed no more star formation
Find me in the Ursa Major Constellation

Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? You Are!
I’m watching you from very far
Called THE EYE, I’m two interacting galaxies
NGC 2207 and IC 2163
We we’re only passing by each other
But strong tidal forces will pull us together
We’ll eventually merge into a single massive galaxy
Watching you from Canis Major is where I’ll be

Not a comet, I’m the Comet Galaxy
A galaxy that looks like a comet you see
An oddly shaped stretched out spiral galaxy
Moving at incredible velocity
My speed causes ram pressure stripping you see
Tearing stars and hot gases away from me
I have blue knots all over which are new star formation
Find me near the Sextans and Sculptor constellations

CHORUS

SDSS J1038+4849
We are one of the strangest galaxy clusters you will find
Smiling at you from billions of light years away
Because we look like we have a giant Smiley Face
The Eyes are two distant faceon galaxies
The smile and circle are caused by gravitational lensing you see
Strong gravitational pulls can act like a lens and distort and bend light
Look for Us in Ursa Major in the darkness of the night

CHORUS

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