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what's up for November this month we'll

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be looking at a red planet and a red

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star I'm Jane Houston Jones from NASA's

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California first we'll look at myra red

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stars are older stars and this one is

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really special because it's variable

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every 11 months it goes through a cycle

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where it becomes much brighter for a few

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months and that brightening period

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starts in mid-november and lasts through

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about March if you step outside and can

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see Orion you'll be able to see myra

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also at that time a couple months ago

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the Galaxy Evolution Explorer aimed its

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space telescope at Myra and took some

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pictures in the ultraviolet they saw not

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only the star but a long long tail that

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looked like a comet's tail streaming

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behind the star that tailed is 20,000

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times longer than our solar system is on

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the other side of Orion you'll find Mars

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this month last month Mars looked really

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nice and this month it'll look even

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bigger and brighter through just about

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any telescope even a small inexpensive

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telescope you'll be able to see markings

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such as syrtis major if you look at Mars

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through a telescope on November 10th

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right along the equator right in the

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middle of the planet is where the rover

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Opportunity is you'll be able to see the

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area where Spirit is on November 30th a

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little south of the equator the two

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Rovers are on opposite sides of Mars so

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as the planet rotates different parts of

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the planet are visible to those of us on

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earth you won't actually be able to see

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the Rovers but you'll know the area of

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Mars where they are even though Mars

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will look really great this month it'll

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be even closer to Earth next month you

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can get this month star charts at

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education JPL nasa gov just click on the

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what's up button you can get information

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about all of NASA's missions at WWDC gov