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head-to-head planet to planet the star 
gazers I'm james oberg director the kike

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Silverpop planetarium in Gainesville 
Florida and I'm Dean Regas astronomer

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for the Cincinnati Observatory we're 
here to help you find your way around

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the sky as we roll into June two planets 
shine bright and as he does every june

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the mighty Hercules flexes muscles and 
the eastern sky he's strong brave enough

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but how do I put this delicately he's 
not very bright

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exactly and his dim stars make him hard 
to find

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luckily hercules is also hard-headed 
because when we show you how to find it

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we'll see that he goes head-to-head with 
another large constellation let's show

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you ok sky set for any night this week 
at around 10:30 p.m. facing southeast

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that's where you can find two planets 
just after sunset they look like very

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bright stars but are much much different 
which planets are these well let me give

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you some clues the brighter of the two 
and the one up and to the right is also

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known as the red planet it's the fourth 
planet from the Sun and it's the place

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to look firm martians its mars what gave 
it away a good guesser and I was going

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to say that Mars usually appears rather 
than the other stars but this spring

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well that isn't the case lower in the 
southeast you'll spy a very red twinkly

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star called and terrorists this marks 
the beating heart of the constellation

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Scorpius the Scorpion mars an entire 
should be similar in color after all the

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Greek name from mars with Aries and 
Antares means rival of mars other planet

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is that yellow star-like object to the 
left

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I don't need to give you any verbal 
clues for this 1 I'll just show you read

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it looks like in a telescope and you'll 
saying my favorite planet Saturn be

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closest to Earth this week so definitely 
check it out

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now we're facing east southeast at 10:30 
p.m. and we're looking for a

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muscle-bound hero right over here Dean 
that is true you've got the muscles but

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you're definitely too bright indeed and 
hercules is tough to find even for me I

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first look for the bright blue star Vega 
that lets me know I'm in the area above

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Vegas is a four sided figure of stars 
called the Keystone that is hercules is

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body to picture the rest of his body 
takes a lot of imagination so let's

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throw the picture of them up there

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yep he's upside down he's actually doing 
some acrobatics with another

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constellation Ophiuchus he's just as 
tough to picture in the stars but Greek

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legend says he's holding a snake as well 
can you see that

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hercules is no fix our head to head in 
the sky and the names of their stars

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attest to that

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hercules is head Start is named Russell 
get and it means head of the kneeler its

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dimmer than the North Star but you may 
detect a slightly reddish tint to it

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that's because Russell Gaffey is a red 
giant star but 360 light years away from

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us a few cases had stars called rossoll 
Hague and means head of the serpent pair

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of u-kiss may look like he is being 
strangled by the snake but he's actually

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showing it off Greek myths say that he 
learned to bring the dead back to life

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thanks to the help of the snake you know 
the symbol on ambulances of the snake

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coiled around a staff that comes from 
this ledge

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after sunset this week look for the two 
planets in the southeastern sky Mars and

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Saturn will be hanging out near the 
constellation Scorpius and its red heart

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star Antares then see the two giant 
constellations going head-to-head in the

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east southeast Hercules and Ophiuchus 
and behold airhead stars Russell and

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Russell hey hey James have you ever 
wanted to be a constellation all the

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time should we posed I don't have a 
snake but I have been the stargazers

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graphics can fix that for stargazers I'm 
James Hercules all dairy and I'm Dean

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Ophiuchus Regus

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they found a snake for me hoping you 
keep looking up