1 00:00:20,754 --> 00:00:24,791 JAMES: HEY THERE STAR GAZERS. 2 00:00:24,891 --> 00:00:28,361 I'M JAMES ALBURY, DIRECTOR OF THE KIKA SILVA PLA PLANETARIUM IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA. 3 00:00:28,461 --> 00:00:30,797 DEAN: AND I'M DEAN REGAS, ASTRONOMER FOR THE CINCINNATI 4 00:00:30,897 --> 00:00:32,232 OBSERVATORY. 5 00:00:32,332 --> 00:00:35,201 WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY AROUND THE SKY TONIGHT. 6 00:00:35,301 --> 00:00:37,937 THE ANCIENT STAR GAZERS HAD A LOT OF IMAGINATION. 7 00:00:38,038 --> 00:00:40,507 JAMES: WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THE STARS, THEY CONNECTED 8 00:00:40,607 --> 00:00:44,444 THE DOTS AND PICTURED PEOPLE, ANIMALS, RIVERS, AND EVEN ENTIRE SCENES. 9 00:00:44,544 --> 00:00:47,080 DEAN: AND IN THE FALL EVENING SKY, IF YOU HAVE AN 10 00:00:47,180 --> 00:00:50,183 ANCIENT IMAGINATION YOU CAN SEE A KING AND A QUEEN 11 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:51,684 JAMES: A PRINCE AND A PRINCESS 12 00:00:51,785 --> 00:00:53,153 DEAN: TWO MONSTERS AND 13 00:00:53,253 --> 00:00:54,354 JAMES: A FLYING HORSE. 14 00:00:54,454 --> 00:00:56,389 DEAN: IT'S GONNA GET CROWDED UP THERE BUT WE CAN 15 00:00:56,489 --> 00:00:57,757 WALK YOU THROUGH IT. 16 00:00:57,857 --> 00:01:01,194 JAMES: OKAY, WE HAVE OUR SKY SET UP FOR 9 PM FACING 17 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:02,962 NORTHEAST. 18 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:06,299 ABOUT HALFWAY-UP IN THE SKY YOU' LL FIND THE FIVE, FAMILIAR STARS THAT LOOK LIKE A 19 00:01:06,399 --> 00:01:07,434 LETTER W. 20 00:01:07,534 --> 00:01:09,469 DEAN: THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL QUEEN CASSIOPEIA. 21 00:01:09,569 --> 00:01:14,307 NOW STRETCH YOUR IMAGINATIONS A LITTLE AND SEE IF YOU CAN MAKE OUT A QUEEN OF ETHIOPIA 22 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:15,642 SITTING ON HER THRONE. 23 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:19,279 JAMES: SORRY, I GUESS I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH IMAGINATION. 24 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:21,915 BUT ONCE YOU FIND HER, SHE IS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER OF 25 00:01:22,015 --> 00:01:23,149 OUR STORY. 26 00:01:23,249 --> 00:01:25,151 DEAN: LEGEND HAS IT THAT CASSIOPEIA BRAGGED ABOUT 27 00:01:25,251 --> 00:01:27,053 HER BEAUTY WAY TOO MUCH. 28 00:01:27,153 --> 00:01:29,789 IN FACT ONE DAY SHE SAID (NOW GET THIS), 29 00:01:29,889 --> 00:01:33,760 SHE SAID, I'M MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ALL THE MERMAIDS IN THE OCEAN. 30 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:34,961 JAMES: YIKES! 31 00:01:35,061 --> 00:01:38,431 THAT GOT POSEIDON, THE GOD OF THE SEA, SUPER-MAD. 32 00:01:38,531 --> 00:01:42,068 HE CONFRONTED CASSIOPEIA'S HUSBAND, KING CEPHEUS, WHOSE FIVE FAINTER 33 00:01:42,168 --> 00:01:44,671 STARS ARE UP AND TO THE LEFT OF HIS WIFE. 34 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:46,506 THE STARS LOOK LIKE AN UPSIDE-DOWN HOUSE. 35 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:49,242 DEAN: FOR INSULTING THE GODS, CASSIOPEIA HAD TO 36 00:01:49,342 --> 00:01:53,680 GIVE UP HER ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER, THE PRINCESS ANDROMEDA, AS A SACRIFICE. 37 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:57,650 BASICALLY, THEY HAD TO CHAIN ANDROMEDA TO A BIG ROCK IN THE OCEAN, 38 00:01:57,750 --> 00:02:00,019 AND LET POSEIDON'S PET SEA MONSTER EAT HER. 39 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,056 JAMES: YOU CAN FIND ANDROMEDA TO THE RIGHT OF CASSIOPEIA. 40 00:02:03,156 --> 00:02:05,391 HER STARS LOOK MORE LIKE A SKINNY LETTER A. 41 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:06,960 DEAN: A FOR ANDROMEDA. 42 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:08,228 JAMES: EXACTLY. 43 00:02:08,328 --> 00:02:11,197 JAMES: ANDROMEDA ALSO HOUSES THE CLOSEST SPIRAL GALAXY 44 00:02:11,297 --> 00:02:12,799 TO OUR MILKY WAY. 45 00:02:12,899 --> 00:02:15,869 IT'S CALLED THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY BECAUSE YOU CAN FIND IT NEAR HER RIGHT 46 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:17,370 HIP-STAR. 47 00:02:17,470 --> 00:02:19,172 OF COURSE IF YOU LIVE IN A LIGHT POLLUTED AREA, YOU WON'T BE ABLE 48 00:02:19,272 --> 00:02:20,974 TO SEE THIS GALAXY. 49 00:02:21,074 --> 00:02:24,477 HOWEVER, IF YOU'RE OUT IN THE COUNTRY YOU MIGHT SEE IT LOOKING LIKE A LITTLE CLOUD, 50 00:02:24,577 --> 00:02:26,279 BARELY VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. 51 00:02:26,379 --> 00:02:28,815 DEAN: WITH BINOCULARS YOU CAN RESOLVE A LOT MORE 52 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:33,920 OF ITS CLOUDY NATURE, AND WITH A TELESCOPE YOU CAN SEE IT AS A LONG, FUZZY BLUR. 53 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:39,392 THIS IS A GALAXY, WITH ONE TRILLION STARS, THAT YOU CAN'T SEE WITH THE NAKED EYE. 54 00:02:39,492 --> 00:02:40,593 SPACE IS SCARY-BIG! 55 00:02:40,693 --> 00:02:43,062 JAMES: NOW BEFORE THE 56 00:02:43,163 --> 00:02:47,534 SEA MONSTER MAKES HIS APPEARANCE WE MUST INTRODUCE OUR HERO, PERSEUS. 57 00:02:47,634 --> 00:02:51,571 AS THE STORY GOES, PERSEUS, THAT VERY MORNING, SLEW THE WICKED GORGON MEDUSA. 58 00:02:51,671 --> 00:02:54,307 DEAN: SHE'S THE ONE WITH SNAKES FOR HAIR AND TURNS 59 00:02:54,407 --> 00:02:56,142 YOU TO STONE WITH JUST ONE LOOK. 60 00:02:56,242 --> 00:02:59,112 JAMES: LOOKING AT HER REFLECTION IN HIS SHIELD, PERSEUS 61 00:02:59,212 --> 00:03:02,348 CHOPPED OFF HER HEAD, THEN PUT THE HEAD IN A BAG FOR SAFE KEEPING. 62 00:03:02,448 --> 00:03:05,051 DEAN: LATER THAT AFTERNOON, AS HE WAS FLYING THROUGH 63 00:03:05,151 --> 00:03:07,687 THE AIR (ON HIS WINGED SANDALS), WITH THE INFAMOUS 64 00:03:07,787 --> 00:03:11,991 BAG AT HIS SIDE, PERSEUS HAPPENED TO SPY A YOUNG MAIDEN IN DISTRESS. 65 00:03:12,091 --> 00:03:14,027 JAMES: OUR PRINCESS, ANDROMEDA! 66 00:03:14,127 --> 00:03:17,997 NOW WE'RE FACING EAST AT 10PM AND PERSEUS APPEARS ON THE SCENE. 67 00:03:18,097 --> 00:03:20,733 YOU CAN FIND HIM AS A SQUIGGLE OF STARS BELOW ANDROMEDA'S FEET. 68 00:03:20,833 --> 00:03:22,235 DEAN: THE SEA MONSTER, 69 00:03:22,335 --> 00:03:26,339 A CONSTELLATION NAMED CETUS, IS JUST RISING IN THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. 70 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:29,075 I THINK HIS STARS LOOK LIKE A RECLINER CHAIR. 71 00:03:29,175 --> 00:03:30,243 JAMES: THAT DOESN'T SEEM 72 00:03:30,343 --> 00:03:31,444 SO SCARY. 73 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:33,713 DEAN: ANYWAY, PERSEUS YELLS TO ANDROMEDA, CLOSE 74 00:03:33,813 --> 00:03:35,582 YOUR EYES! 75 00:03:35,682 --> 00:03:40,286 THEN HE CLOSES HIS EYES, REACHES INTO THE BAG AND PULLS OUT MEDUSA'S SEVERED HEAD, SHOWS 76 00:03:40,386 --> 00:03:44,224 IT TO THE SEA MONSTER WHO TAKES ONE LOOK AT IT AND, POOF TURNS 77 00:03:44,324 --> 00:03:45,225 TO STONE. 78 00:03:45,325 --> 00:03:47,093 JAMES: PERSEUS SAVES THE DAY! 79 00:03:47,193 --> 00:03:49,896 JAMES: WOW, WHAT A STARRY STORY. 80 00:03:49,996 --> 00:03:54,167 A KING, A QUEEN, A PRINCE AND PRINCESS, TWO MONSTERS AND OOPS, 81 00:03:54,267 --> 00:03:55,168 WE FORGOT THE FLYING HORSE. 82 00:03:55,268 --> 00:03:56,402 DEAN: OH YEAH! 83 00:03:56,502 --> 00:03:59,205 PEGASUS WAS, SUPPOSEDLY, BORN FROM THIS EPIC BATTLE. 84 00:03:59,305 --> 00:04:03,209 AS PERSEUS HELD OUT MEDUSA'S HEAD - THIS IS GROSS NOW - SOME OF 85 00:04:03,309 --> 00:04:07,113 HER BLOOD FELL INTO THE WATER, AND TURNED MAGICALLY INTO PEGASUS 86 00:04:07,213 --> 00:04:08,114 THE FLYING HORSE. 87 00:04:08,214 --> 00:04:09,115 JAMES: OH COME ON! 88 00:04:09,215 --> 00:04:10,116 THAT IS TOO WEIRD! 89 00:04:10,216 --> 00:04:12,018 DEAN: AGREED. 90 00:04:12,118 --> 00:04:15,455 BUT THAT'S THE KIND OF IMAGINATION WE'RE DEALING WITH WHEN WE LEARN ABOUT THE CONSTELLATIONS 91 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:16,456 AND WHEN YOU... 92 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:20,556 BOTH: KEEP LOOKING UP!