Arcturus—the brightest Summer-night star for the Northern Hemisphere—can be found by following an imaginary arc through the handle of the Big Dipper. (Shown just after evening twilight for mid-Northern latitudes)
Scheduled air date: 1998 Jun 22-28
Arcturus—the brightest Summer-night star for the Northern Hemisphere—can be
found by following an imaginary arc through the handle of the Big Dipper. (Shown
just after evening twilight for mid-Northern latitudes)
About 35 light-years from Earth, the massive Arcturus is twenty times the diameter of our
own Sun!
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