See Betelgeuse, Sirius and more in Feb. 2020 skywatching

February tonight sky constellations [Music] the brightly starred winter sky beckons on clear cold nights [Music] Orion the Hunter of Greek mythology dominates the heavens with a bright belt of three stars [Music] the hunters shoulder is marked by the red supergiant Betelgeuse a massive star nearing the end of its life Betelgeuse is roughly 1000 times the size of our Sun an image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows its huge atmosphere with an enormous mysterious spot glowing brightly in ultraviolet light Hubble's sharp vision allows astronomers to monitor features of the star's atmosphere and better understand how it changes over time [Music] marking Orion's foot is another bright hot supergiant blue-white Rigel massive stars like Rigel lead short brilliant lives below Orion's shining belt lies the Orion Nebula a hazy spot to the naked eye a small telescope reveals it to be a diffuse glowing cloud in space illuminated by the energy of bright hot stars in its centre [Music] nasa's hubble and spitzer space telescope's reveal the nebula in festoons of glowing gas and dust sculpted by the stellar winds of central bright stars the Orion Nebula is an immense stellar nursery filled with hot young stars that glow brightly in x-ray light detected by NASA's Chandra x-ray Observatory follow the belt of Orion down and left to find blue white Sirius the brightest star in the night sky [Music] serious lies in the constellation Canis Major the great dog and companion to Orion Sirius is also one of the nearest stars just 8.6 light-years away and has a faint white dwarf companion star [Music] just below serious lies a star cluster called m41 it is easily seen with a pair of binoculars as a scattered twinkling m41 consists of about 100 stars that formed together from a giant cloud of gas and dust above and left of Sirius is another bright star a yellowish giant named Procyon [Music] Procyon is part of the constellation Canis minor the smaller dog and Orion's second companion Procyon serious and Betelgeuse form a geometrical pattern called the winter triangle [Music] let the winter triangle be your guide to the glories of the winter sky [Music] celestial wonders await you in tonight sky [Music]

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Length: 5min 32sec (332 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 03 2020