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what's up for march

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meet the morning planets

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the nearest star cluster

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and some do-it-yourself exoplanets

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saturn joins venus and mars this month

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in the morning sky beginning around

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march 18th or 19th early risers may

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notice saturn steadily moving toward

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mars and venus each day to form a trio

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low in the east before sunrise the

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crescent moon joins the crowd on the

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27th and 28th

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saturn and mars are headed toward a

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super close meeting at the start of

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april more about that in next month's

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video

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look high in the southwest on march

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evenings and you'll find the tall

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y-shaped constellation taurus the bull

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and at the center of taurus forming the

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bull's face is a group of stars known as

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the hyades star cluster

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it's the closest open star cluster to

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our solar system containing hundreds of

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stars

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that are close together in space and

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loosely bound together by their mutual

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gravity

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these are stars that formed together

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around the same time from the same cloud

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of dust and gas

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over time they blow away that leftover

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nebula material and drift apart

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because of this and they're open or

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diffuse structures they're called open

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clusters

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our own sun formed in a cluster like

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this and studying these structures helps

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us understand how stars form and evolve

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another well-known open cluster is the

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pleiades which is also located in taurus

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the hyades and the pleiades are actually

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about the same size at about 15 or so

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light years across but the pleiades is

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about three times farther away so it

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appears more compact

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you don't need a telescope to find the

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hyades look for this v-shaped grouping

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of stars in taurus

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use the stars of orion's belt as a handy

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pointer leading you to bright orange

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aldebaran

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star cluster it's located halfway to the

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hyades and just happens to appear in the

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foreground

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so check out the hyades in march where

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you'll see a handful of stars with the

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unaided eye and more than 100 with

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binoculars

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march skies contain several easy-to-find

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bright stars that are known to have

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planets of their own orbiting around

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them

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locate these distant suns for yourself

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and you'll know you're appearing

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directly at another planetary system

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first is epsilon taurai the right eye of

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taurus the bull

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this orange dwarf star has a gas giant

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planet around eight times the mass of

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jupiter

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next is seven canis majoris this is the

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star at the heart of the dog

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constellation that contains blazing

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bright sirius

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this star is known to have two planets a

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gas giant nearly twice the mass of

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jupiter and another just a little

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smaller than jupiter moving on we find

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tau geminorum the star at the heart of

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castor northernmost of the twins in

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gemini

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tau geminorum has a huge gas giant

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planet 20 times the mass of jupiter in

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an orbit only slightly larger than that

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of earth

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and finally wheeling around to the north

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is beta ursa minorus the brightest star

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in the bowl of the little dipper

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this star has a six jupiter mass planet

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in orbit around it

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researchers expect that most stars have

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a family of planets orbiting them

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because forming planets is a natural

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part of forming stars

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and now you know how to find a few of

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them yourself no telescope required

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here are the phases of the moon for

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stay up to date with all of nasa's

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missions to explore the solar system and

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beyond at nasa.gov i'm preston dykes