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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