WEBVTT 00:20.487 --> 00:22.322 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE FISH HOOK AND THE SCORPION! 00:22.422 --> 00:24.424 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: WELCOME TO STAR GAZERS. 00:24.524 --> 00:27.494 align:left position:72.5% line:83% size:17.5% I'M DEAN REGAS, ASTRONOMER FROM THE CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY. 00:27.594 --> 00:29.929 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: AND I'M JAMES ALBURY, DIRECTOR OF THE KIKA 00:30.030 --> 00:32.932 align:left position:72.5% line:89% size:17.5% SILVA PLA PLANETARIUM IN GAINESVILLE FLORIDA. 00:33.033 --> 00:37.037 align:left position:72.5% line:83% size:17.5% ONE OF OUR FAVORITE SUMMER TIME CONSTELLATIONS IS VISIBLE ABOVE THE SOUTHERN HORIZON AFTER 00:37.137 --> 00:39.672 align:left position:75% line:89% size:15% SUNSET THIS MONTH AND IT HAS QUITE A STORY. 00:39.773 --> 00:41.608 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: THAT'S RIGHT, JAMES! 00:41.708 --> 00:46.546 align:left position:72.5% line:83% size:17.5% SCORPIUS THE SCORPION IS GRACING THE SOUTHERN SKY THIS MONTH, BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT SCORPIUS 00:46.646 --> 00:50.817 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT IDENTITY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SCORPIONS? 00:50.917 --> 00:52.285 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 00:52.385 --> 00:53.753 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% LET'S SHOW YOU! 00:53.853 --> 00:56.990 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: OK, WE HAVE OUR SKY SET FOR ABOUT AN HOUR 00:57.090 --> 01:00.960 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% AFTER SUNSET, ANY NIGHT THIS WEEK, FACING SOUTH. 01:01.061 --> 01:05.231 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% IT IS HERE THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THE FAMILIAR J-SHAPED PATTERN OF STARS THAT MAKE 01:05.331 --> 01:07.434 align:left position:80% line:89% size:10% THE CONSTELLATION SCORPIUS THE SCORPION. 01:07.534 --> 01:10.070 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY, SCORPIUS WAS 01:10.170 --> 01:15.108 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% SENT BY GAIA, THE GODDESS OF THE EARTH TO PUNISH ORION FOR BOASTING THAT HE WAS THE 01:15.208 --> 01:17.210 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% GREATEST HUNTER TO EVER LIVE. 01:17.310 --> 01:22.816 align:left position:72.5% line:83% size:17.5% SO WHILE HE WAS HUNTING, THE SCORPION ATTACKED ORION, STINGING HIM WITH ITS POISONOUS STINGER. 01:22.916 --> 01:27.153 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% THE SCORPION WAS THEN PLACED IN THE SKY TO MARK GAIA'S VICTORY. 01:27.253 --> 01:30.190 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: THAT HOWEVER IS NOT THE ONLY STORY ABOUT THIS 01:30.290 --> 01:32.725 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5% BRIGHT PATTERN OF SUMMER STARS. 01:32.826 --> 01:37.363 align:left position:80% line:83% size:10% BELIEVE IT OR NOT, MANY PEOPLE SEE THIS J-SHAPED PATTERN AS THE GIANT FISHHOOK OF 01:37.464 --> 01:39.466 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% THE DEMIGOD MAUI. 01:39.566 --> 01:43.903 align:left position:72.5% line:83% size:17.5% IN POLYNESIAN FOLK LORE, MAUI AND HIS BROTHERS DECIDED TO GO FISHING. 01:44.003 --> 01:48.441 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% HE BROUGHT HIS MAGIC FISHHOOK WITH HIM AND INSTRUCTED HIS BROTHERS THAT ONCE HE TOSSED 01:48.541 --> 01:52.278 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5% THE FISHHOOK IN THE WATER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY CAUGHT, KEEP PADDLING 01:52.378 --> 01:53.446 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% AND DO NOT LOOK BACK. 01:53.546 --> 01:56.349 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: ALMOST INSTANTLY, MAUI'S FISHHOOK BEGAN TO 01:56.449 --> 01:58.751 align:left position:82.5% line:89% size:7.5% PULL UP LARGE OBJECTS FROM THE OCEAN. 01:58.852 --> 02:03.590 align:left position:75% line:83% size:15% EXCITED, MAUI'S BROTHERS PADDLED FASTER, AND MAUI PULLED HARDER AND HARDER. 02:03.690 --> 02:07.293 align:left position:67.5% line:83% size:22.5% MANY HOURS PASSED AND THE BROTHERS WERE EXHAUSTED FROM ALL THE ROWING. 02:07.393 --> 02:11.865 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% AGAINST MAUI'S INSTRUCTIONS, THEY DECIDED TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT MAUI CAUGHT, AND BOY 02:11.965 --> 02:13.266 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% WERE THEY SURPRISED. 02:13.366 --> 02:16.870 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: INDEED, ONE OF THE BROTHERS EXCLAIMED, "MAUI 02:16.970 --> 02:18.705 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% CAUGHT LAND!" 02:18.805 --> 02:22.609 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% MAUI WAS FURIOUS, EXCLAIMING, "HAD YOU NOT LOOKED BACK, WE COULD HAVE RAISED A GREATER 02:22.709 --> 02:24.010 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5% LAND!" 02:24.110 --> 02:27.046 align:left position:82.5% line:83% size:7.5% WE NOW KNOW THESE SMALL PIECES OF LAND AS THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 02:27.147 --> 02:29.616 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: IN ADDITION TO THAT, MAUI TOSSED HIS FISH 02:29.716 --> 02:34.020 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% HOOK INTO THE HEAVENS TO SLOW DOWN THE SUN SO THAT THE SUMMER MONTHS WOULD HAVE MORE 02:34.120 --> 02:35.488 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5% HOURS OF DAYLIGHT. 02:35.588 --> 02:39.459 align:left position:75% line:83% size:15% TO THIS DAY, WE CAN SEE MAUI'S FISH HOOK IN THE SKY EVERY SUMMER. 02:39.559 --> 02:43.096 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: THE STARS OF MAUI'S FISH HOOK (AKA SCORPIUS 02:43.196 --> 02:45.999 align:left position:85% line:89% size:5% THE SCORPION) HAVE INTRIGUING NAMES. 02:46.099 --> 02:50.203 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% STARTING FROM THE WEST AND WORKING OUR WAY EAST WE HAVE THE THREE STARS MARKING THE CLAWS 02:50.303 --> 02:51.437 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% OF THE SCORPION. 02:51.538 --> 02:54.407 align:left position:87.5% line:89% size:2.5% GRAFFIAS, DSCHUBBA AND PI SCORPII. 02:54.507 --> 02:57.410 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: DOWN AND TO THE LEFT OF THOSE THREE STARS 02:57.510 --> 03:01.247 align:left position:80% line:89% size:10% YOU HAVE AL NIYAT, ANTARES AND ALNIYAT. 03:01.347 --> 03:04.551 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% YES, SCORPIUS HAS TWO STARS WITH THE SAME NAME. 03:04.651 --> 03:06.920 align:left position:85% line:89% size:5% THE FIRST AL NIYAT IS SIGMA SCORPII. 03:07.020 --> 03:10.423 align:left position:72.5% line:83% size:17.5% IT'S A BINARY STAR SYSTEM OVER 500 LIGHT YEARS AWAY. 03:10.523 --> 03:13.893 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: THE SECOND ALNIYAT IS TAU SCORPII. 03:13.993 --> 03:19.532 align:left position:75% line:83% size:15% IT'S A BLUE-WHITE STAR OVER 400 LIGHT YEARS AWAY FROM US AND OVER 18,000 TIMES AS BRIGHT 03:19.632 --> 03:21.034 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% AS OUR SUN. 03:21.134 --> 03:26.272 align:left position:75% line:83% size:15% BETWEEN SIGMA AND TAU SCORPII LIES ANTARES, THE FAMED RIVAL OF MARS. 03:26.372 --> 03:29.142 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: ANTARES IS SO LARGE THAT IF YOU WERE TO PLACE 03:29.242 --> 03:36.382 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, MERCURY VENUS, EARTH AND MARS WOULD ALL BE ORBITING INSIDE ANTARES. 03:36.482 --> 03:40.019 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: LASTLY, LETS SHOW YOU THE TAIL. 03:40.119 --> 03:47.060 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% MOVING AWAY FROM TAU SCORPII, WE HAVE EPSILON SCORPII, MU, ZETA AND NU SCORPII, 03:47.160 --> 03:52.232 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% SARGAS, IOTA AND KAPPA SCORPII AND SHAULA AND LESATH (WHICH MARK THE STINGER). 03:52.332 --> 03:54.701 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: SHAULA AND LESATH ARE SOMETIMES CALLED THE 03:54.801 --> 03:59.839 align:left position:67.5% line:83% size:22.5% CAT'S EYES BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO GLOW MYSTERIOUSLY LIKE THE EYES OF A CAT. 03:59.939 --> 04:06.179 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% SHAULA IS OVER 36,000 TIMES THE BRIGHTNESS OF OUR SUN AND IS APPROXIMATELY 570 LIGHT 04:06.279 --> 04:07.413 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% YEARS AWAY. 04:07.513 --> 04:09.849 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: MEANWHILE, LESATH (WHICH MEANS "BITE OF THE 04:09.949 --> 04:14.354 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% POISONOUS ONE") IS ALSO CLOSE TO 580 LIGHT YEARS FROM US AND 04:14.454 --> 04:17.457 align:left position:85% line:83% size:5% OVER 12,000 TIMES THE BRIGHTNESS OF OUR SUN. 04:17.557 --> 04:19.559 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. 04:19.659 --> 04:23.062 align:left position:75% line:83% size:15% ONE CONSTELLATION WITH TWO INSPIRING PIECES OF FOLKLORE. 04:23.162 --> 04:26.699 align:left position:77.5% line:83% size:12.5% AS THE NIGHT PASSES, YOU CAN WATCH MAUI'S FISH HOOK DESCENDING TOWARD THE HORIZON. 04:26.799 --> 04:29.702 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% DEAN: OR YOU CAN IMAGINE IT BEING A MENACING SCORPION, 04:29.802 --> 04:31.871 align:left position:75% line:89% size:15% DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIND ORION THE HUNTER. 04:31.971 --> 04:34.040 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5% JAMES: AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, IT'S BEING FOLLOWED 04:34.140 --> 04:36.209 align:left position:87.5% line:89% size:2.5% BY A BRIGHT, NON-TWINKLING LIGHT. 04:36.309 --> 04:37.477 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% THAT LIGHT IS JUPITER. 04:37.577 --> 04:41.577 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% BOTH: KEEP LOOKING UP!