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a late-night lineup hey there stargazers

I'm james oberg director the key cassava
pa planetarium in Gainesville Florida

and in re yes astronomer for the
Cincinnati Observatory

we're here to help you find your way
around the sky we know that the stars

have summer don't come out until late at
night

but when you do get out there under the
stars you'll be rewarded with a major

celestial lineup that's right thing

two planets and two stars will form a
conga line in the southern sky

plus the moon will salsa through the
heavily dance next week

but see our salsa James that such a bad
not too bad

and maybe just maybe you can catch it
paving glimpse are the largest planet in

the Solar System

before waltzes of into the sunset all
that show you

okay we have our sky set to any night
this week at 10 p.m.

facing west let's find are fading planet
before it leaves the evening sky

it may be fading but it is still bright
I'm talking about the planet jupiter

and you can see it just above the
western horizon after sunset

duper is still the brightest object in
the nighttime sky right now

other than the moon in a few short weeks
from our view on earth

Jibril past behind the Sun and disappear
from our

evening skies and then a few weeks later
it'll pop out in the morning skies

just before sunrise now let's get to the
lineup

we're facing south at 11 p.m. and is
Sunday June

a let's highlight the four brightest
star like object

who the moon is next to one of them on
June

8 that is but it'll move throughout the
next week these four bright stars

actually two stars and two planets from
left to right

or east-west they are and Taris the Red
Star marking the heart up Scorpius the

Scorpion

then comes the beautiful red planet
Saturn the one next to the moon is spike

a

the brightest star in the constellation
Virgo the maiden and left in Pine

is the ruby red planet %uh war mars to
keep them straight

remember they're lined up star planet
star

plant and Tyrese is one of the largest
stars in our corner the Galaxy

is a red supergiant about 620 late years
for Merck

if we put our son next and Tyrese a

I don't think our screen is big enough
but can you see that little dot

that is our star the Sun next to the
giant heart on the Scorpion

and tarts now let's hop over to the next

object in our lineup beautiful
breathtaking fatter

to they can I someone looks like an
ordinary yellow star

is brighter than Antares but not nearly
as bright as your

that's because Saturn is far from us
about twice as far as Jupiter

but when you look through even a modest
telescope then you can behold saturns

glory

how those rings over 200,000 miles from
tip to tip

saturns huge way bigger than here

but compared to our son and Antares its
at tiny gem in the bath

space you've probably been seeing spike
a and Mars in the nighttime sky for the

past two months

back in April they appeared much closer
together but now

they're separated by almost 13 to greet
keep an eye on these two

because as June continues Mars will
again get closer and closer to spike

each night and on the night of July 13th
Mars will be just a little

over one degree from spike and that's
why this lineup this week is so special

with both mars and Saturn wandering
around it won't last for long

speak and wondering what's the move
going to do this week

well June aight that'll be near spike a
on June 9

ill have shifted closer to stagger then
on June 10

the moon will be on the other side
Saturn and june eleventh

ill be above and Tyrese so as darkness
falls this week

look for Jupiter in the western sky
later

after the rest in starr's pop out look
south for the conga line of stars and

planets remember

that it goes star planet star plant
Antares

Satter spike a and Mark there's a lot to
see this week when you

keep looking up

ok