Arcturus is one of the brightest stars in our night sky! ⭐️ This twinkling red giant is a part of the constellation Bootes the herdsman and you can use the handle of the Big Dipper to find or "arc" to Arcturus. 🔭 Learn the facts about this summer star and its interesting Chicago connection with Nick in this episode of Skywatch Wednesday.

VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Find Arcturus In The Sky
01:17 Arcturus Is A Red Giant Star
01:54 Bootes The Herdsman Constellation
03:44 Arcturus’s Chicago Connection
04:56 Find Other Patterns In The Sky

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⭐️ What's Up In The Night Sky For The Week Of: April 28, 2021

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IMAGE CREDITS
Polynesian Voyagers By User:Makthorpe - Artist: John Webber, artist aboard Cook’s ship.Source: Scanned from page 20 of the following book.Grant, Glenn (2004) Hawai`i Looking Back: An illustrated History of the Islands, Mutual Publishing, pp. 454pp, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

1933 Chicago World’s Fair Poster By Weimer Pursell, silkscreen print by Neely Printing Co., Chicago - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g11941.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Arcturus Diagram: The Arcturus stunt at the Adler Planetarium, illustrated in Norton Wagner’s Unveiling the Universe, 1936. Adler Planetarium library

1933 World’s Fair Panorama By Koss, Harry , copyright claimant - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ds.05672.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

World’s Columbian Exposition By C. D. Arnold (1844-1927); H. D. Higinbotham - The Project Gutenberg EBook of Official Views Of The World&# 039;s Columbian Exposition, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Adler Collection Images:
Blue and Gold Globe: COL_OBJ_M-440-0024
Bootes and Ursa Major: COL_OBJ_M-440-0024
Bootes and Canes Venatici: COL_OBJ_QB65_J3_1822-0010
Photoelectric relay and cells from Century of Progress Fair: G34 a,b,c

VISUALIZATION CREDITS
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SOUND CREDITS
Fretless by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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