Ok .. watched "Galaxies" last night … not bad .. getting a bit repetitive in parts .. superb photography (an emerging characteristic of this series).
- Great shots of Milky Way, Eagle - Pillars, M87, Whirlpool, Sombrero.
- Kaku: "Hubble (telescope) was an EXISTENTIAL SHOCK" … cackle, cackle ..
- Walked thru the Hubble Deep Field, revisiting Hubble's Law etc
- Went through galaxy shapes, dark matter role in shaping them
- Superclusters, the Local Group and touched on the Scale of the Universe - Hierarchy, etc;
- Some words on Quasars and Super Massive Black Holes (SMBH);
- Good overview of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Scope and results;
- Talked about The Great Sloan Wall - nice to hear about this
- Touched on Gravitational Lensing - clumpiness of Dark Matter;
- Dark Energy and expansion
- Andromeda/Milky Way collision. Alarmism from Kaku "The Destruction of our own Galaxy" .. a bit over the top, there, Michio.
- For Suzy: had some of those female AstroPhysicists - Ghez, Suzanne Staggs(?) offset by others: Cox, Michael Strauss, Jeremiah Ostriker, TJ Cox, Kaku and Krauss.
Overall, not bad. I found the segment on the SDSS the most interesting. It has a 1K pound camera - pretty heavy ! Hate to try & mount that one on a dob !!
Cheers & Rgds.
PS: SUZY:
Ya gotta see this thread .. now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about !!
. Another quote: "Scientist calculate it took 380,00 years for the electrons to slow down enough so that the universe could start mass producing atoms..... It will take another 200 million years before those gases create the first stars. ... one billion years after the big bang the first galaxy forms, over the next 8 bilion years, countless more take shape." 
