The Milky Way is an underappreciated place. Here's an attempt to place us in our home, and also how we came to understand our place in it.

0:00 Intro
0:42 Myth
6:21 Democritus and Galileo
7:27 William Herschel
11:50 Charles Messier
15:38 Spiral nebulae
19:54 E E Barnard
21:00 Discovery of galaxies
22:00 Mapping our galaxy
25:19 What our galaxy looks like
32:06 Outro
32:35 Credits