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

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

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

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

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

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

exactly and his dim stars make him hard
to find

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is that yellow star-like object to the
left

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

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

closest to Earth this week so definitely
check it out

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

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

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

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

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

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

throw the picture of them up there

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

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

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

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

attest to that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

coiled around a staff that comes from
this ledge

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

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

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

east southeast Hercules and Ophiuchus
and behold airhead stars Russell and

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

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

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

Ophiuchus Regus

they found a snake for me hoping you
keep looking up