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flying along the Milky Way Heather
 
stargazers

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

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I'm di Maria's astronomer for the
 
Cincinnati Observatory

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this week will be your guide to the
 
galaxy yep

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we're going to show you the Milky Way
 
something I hardly

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ever get to see in Florida how many
 
times have you seen the Milky waiting

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haha the call the Milky Way I see in
 
Cincinnati is a

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filled with chocolate and new get for me
 
light pollution is a big problem

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citylights aluminate signs parking lots
 
buildings and also the night sky

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the more like that we shine up the less
 
like the stars

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shine down even though it's invisible
 
from cities James and I can share as

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sneaky tip to find the Milky Way in your
 
Sky

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let's show you okay let's pretend it's
 
10 o'clock at night

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and we're far from city lights may hand
 
it's dark out here

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now and look at all the summer stars you
 
can see so many stars that you can't

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even count them all

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you can also see a band a faint light
 
stretching from the northeast

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up overhead and down to the southwest
 
this

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is the Milky Way when you look at the
 
Milky Way you're observing

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billions and billions of stars most the
 
stars in our galaxy are stretched out in

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a band

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all around us with us in the middle
 
there are so many stars a our line of

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sight that they appear as milky clouds

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most ancient cultures were just as
 
fascinated with the Milky Way

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as they were with any planet or
 
constellation you can definitely see why

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out in the country it dominates the sky
 
some bright and famous constellations

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can be found along this galactic River

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such as Casio Pierre the Queen Cygnus
 
the Swan

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and Scorpius the Scorpion Cassie appear
 
as one of the most recognizable

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constellations

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in the summer evenings she sits on her
 
throne

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in the north eastern sky what you mean
 
those stars that look like the letter W

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that's a queen

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use your imagination Dean well that
 
picture certainly helps but

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I guess some imagination challenged in
 
that case

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picture this W shape stars as Cassie
 
apiece crowned sparkling with five

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stellar joel's

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okay now that I can see now

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kickback and look high in the sky almost
 
straight overhead you'll see three very

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bright stars marking the summer triangle

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the summer triangle is not an official
 
constellation

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it's really three constellations Lyra
 
the harp

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Cygnus the Swan and a quality Eagle
 
let's focus on Cygnus since it's

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probably the easiest to identify

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because its cross like shape in fact
 
it's also called the northern cross

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sicknesses brightest star is Dana which
 
marks the tale The Swan

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sickness is located in an extremely rich
 
part in the Milky Way

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so imagine it flying along the Great
 
river in the sky

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near dead the Milky Way branches into
 
two channels

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leaving a dark region in the middle this
 
is called the sickness rift

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or the northern call sec now face South

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here the Milky Way threads between two
 
xoxo constellations

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Scorpius and secretary s Scorpius the
 
scorpion is

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easy to spot with its bright red star
 
for heart and its curtail

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and stinger stars the stars and said the
 
terrace resemble more about teapot been

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a centaur wielding a bow and arrow

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when you look between Scorpius and said
 
it areas you're peering into the center

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of our galaxy

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in that direction are billions and
 
billions of stars

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and at the very center those is a
 
supermassive black hole

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X-ray satellites have captured amazing
 
activity around this region called Sajan

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teri is a

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of course you can see the Milky Way

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if you're a citibank and stargazer let's
 
show you the difference between a rural

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sky

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and a light polluted skies yaks

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what a difference even though the Milky
 
Way's disappeared

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we still have three constellations
 
clearly visible to guide us

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Casio p in the Northeast Cygnus high
 
overhead

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and Scorpius low in the south and that's
 
where the Milky Way

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is even if you can't see it once you
 
identify Casio p.m.

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Cygnus or scorpions scan these regions
 
on the sky with the not

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just a little magnification well stars
 
will be revealed

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so start counting those billions and
 
billions of stars tonight

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as you keep looking up

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Duke