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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