Speaker 1: Welcome once again to the Doctor Sky Experience, proudly here
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Speaker 1: deeming proudly out of New York City, the nation, the world,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Even out to the Cosmos.
Speaker 1: As we move into the summer of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: This latest edition of the Doctor Sky Experience will give
Speaker 1: you some great ideas on things to observe in the
Speaker 1: nighttime sky as long as you have clear weather and
Speaker 1: the possibility of dark skies. But don't change the channel.
Speaker 1: City dwellers also have a great opportunity to partake in this.
Speaker 2: Very interesting experience.
Speaker 1: So let's begin and talk about two news stories that
Speaker 1: are actually happening right now. One of them is the
Speaker 1: fate of the Boeing Starliner. As we all know by now,
Speaker 1: the Starliner successfully, after a few maneuvering issues, docked with
Speaker 1: the International Space Station, and we do know now that
Speaker 1: the two astronauts on board have been working out some
Speaker 1: issues with the thrusters, some helium leaks and other things
Speaker 1: that are happening on board the spacecraft. They were originally
Speaker 1: scheduled to return by the twenty sixth of June, but
Speaker 1: that return has been postponed indefinitely. Much more on that later,
Speaker 1: But interestingly enough, when they do return, these two astronauts
Speaker 1: will be making the first attempt for a manned US
Speaker 1: spacecraft to actually land on land, and that's slated for
Speaker 1: somewhere in the desert southwest, more likely White Sands, New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Will keep you posted, but.
Speaker 1: Also something interesting in the news, and I take a
Speaker 1: little bit of exception to how it's been reported in
Speaker 1: legacy media. We're hearing a story about a star that
Speaker 1: may go nova and be rarely bright.
Speaker 2: In the heavens. Well.
Speaker 1: The Doctor Sky Experience lenges those particular words by telling
Speaker 1: you nothing but the truth. The story is about a
Speaker 1: star called Tea the letter T.
Speaker 2: Corona Borealis.
Speaker 1: Corona borealis is an easy to see constellation in darker
Speaker 1: skies as we move a course into the deep part
Speaker 1: of summer. It's identified as a northern crown in the
Speaker 1: heavens now.
Speaker 2: The star T.
Speaker 1: Corona borealis is never bright, at least to the naked eye,
Speaker 1: But in eighteen sixty six, an astronomer named John Birmingham
Speaker 1: actually discovered a star that he identified and later called
Speaker 1: the Blaze Star. What's the story. There's a red supergiant
Speaker 1: surrounded by a small white dwarf star. Now a white
Speaker 1: dwarf star has compact material almost on the amazing crazy snide.
Speaker 1: If we go into this, a spoonful of material of
Speaker 1: a d white dwarf may weigh more than a giant
Speaker 1: apartment building or even that of an aircraft carrier. Hard
Speaker 1: to believe, but that's in quantum physics. The backstory on
Speaker 1: the Blaze Star is that every so often, as it
Speaker 1: happened in eighteen sixty six, the star flares up. It
Speaker 1: also happened in nineteen forty six. Why and how the
Speaker 1: red giant star has material pulled off it by the
Speaker 1: tiny white dwarf which is no larger than the size
Speaker 1: of the Earth.
Speaker 2: Hard to believe.
Speaker 1: And when normal material hits this little dwarf star, it
Speaker 1: literally blazes up through a dynamic infusion. But the real
Speaker 1: truth of this is this particular star, if indeed it happens,
Speaker 1: astronomers are waiting for another resurgence of the Blaze Star
Speaker 1: that's supposed to happen sometime maybe during this particular summer
Speaker 1: July or August.
Speaker 2: What can you see? While a pair of.
Speaker 1: Binoculars would probably be needed for city dwellers and even
Speaker 1: those out in dark locations, the Blaze Star may not
Speaker 1: get any brighter than the North Star. And if you're
Speaker 1: familiar with astronomy or not, the North Star marking the
Speaker 1: north celestial Paul is really not the brightest star in
Speaker 1: the heavens at all. So truth and advertising, of course,
Speaker 1: we tell you nothing but the truth.
Speaker 2: Here I go through.
Speaker 1: Such detail on this because it's important to people to
Speaker 1: know that it's not going to be a star blazing
Speaker 1: as bright as the full moon or something to be
Speaker 1: seen in daylight, but it's still quite interesting. It's called
Speaker 1: a recurrent nova, and that of course gives the historical
Speaker 1: side and story to t Corona Borealis the Blaze Star. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about it, simply go
Speaker 1: to this website, the skylive dot com like thch skylive
Speaker 1: dot com, and you can learn more about this particular
Speaker 1: star more from the visual side of astronomy. But here
Speaker 1: in this doctor Sky update, we bring you something even
Speaker 1: more fascinating that even city dwellers can say. With a
Speaker 1: clare Sky look due south around ten PM as we
Speaker 1: end June and move into July, the beautiful zodiac constellation
Speaker 1: of Scorpius will be easy to see with the naked eye.
Speaker 1: It's a red super giant star. Now, if we compare
Speaker 1: the size of Ontaries, which by the way, the name
Speaker 1: translates as rival of Mars because of its reddish orange color.
Speaker 1: But Mars is so tiny, some four thousand plus miles
Speaker 1: in diameter compared to the star I'm about to talk about.
Speaker 1: The Sun, as we know, is about eight hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five thousand miles across. If you would have round
Speaker 1: it off to a million miles, you'd be wrong. But
Speaker 1: for this example, the star Ontaris is six hundred million
Speaker 1: miles in diameter. Why it's an older star. Maybe one
Speaker 1: day we'll go and collapse and turn into a supernoma.
Speaker 1: But it's some five hundred and fifty light years away.
Speaker 1: So how about this illustration. When you're looking at that
Speaker 1: particular star with the nick and eye, or maybe in
Speaker 1: a pair of binoculars, just know that the light left
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty or so years ago. That means
Speaker 1: the light left from Ontario is that you see tonight
Speaker 1: in the year fourteen seventy five. And if we go
Speaker 1: back into the annals of astronomy, the great astronomer and
Speaker 1: publisher Nicholas Copernicus who gave us to definitive information that
Speaker 1: the Sun was at the center of the Solar system and.
Speaker 2: Not the Earth.
Speaker 1: He was only three years old. When you see the
Speaker 1: light of Ontaris tonight, Ontaris, if you look at it
Speaker 1: on a scale of comparative analysis, would be so much
Speaker 1: simply larger than our sun.
Speaker 2: These are red super giants.
Speaker 1: So share that with friends and neighbors, as you.
Speaker 2: Can learn so much more about the sky.
Speaker 1: And speaking of how to identify objects in the sky,
Speaker 1: here's what I recommend. I do a lot of public
Speaker 1: programs for seniors, students and people in between in ages.
Speaker 1: And what we do is we print out something that
Speaker 1: you can print out or look at it on the internet.
Speaker 1: Go to skymaps dot com and I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: current July twenty twenty four analysis of the sky. It
Speaker 1: tells you everything that you'd probably ever want to know
Speaker 1: to share with you yourself, neighbors, friends, children, and seniors
Speaker 1: about the wonders of the nighttime sky. That is so
Speaker 1: much of the that we have right now for some
Speaker 1: things to talk about, observe, and actually see in the sky.
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Speaker 1: Always remember to keep your eyes to the skies, as
Speaker 1: I'm your navigator in the Highway to the Heavens and
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