Aldebaran: Orange Giant Star in Taurus the Bull Constellation

[@learnthesky]

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[@kafuuchino3236]

Just made a cup of tea downstairs and saw Orion out of the window, had a quick look at it, Sirius, Procyon and finally Aldebaran before coming upstairs again to find this in my KZbin recommendations! Hello there again, Aldebaran!

[@AstroCatz]

Always loved Aldebaran sitting besides the Hyades Cluster, I enjoy seeking it at night when I’m with some of my friends. Thank you for delivering the details behind🙂

[@dandittrick2652]

Thank you for helping me learn the night sky! I can now go out any time of the year and spot constellations. You are a very good teacher.

[@learnthesky]

Thank you.

[@ManuAsterion]

Thanks for the video! A more nerdy fact about Aldebaran is that it is probably the “red Borgil” that Frodo saw in the second night of his quest to destroy the Ring

[@jamesrussell7760]

Aldebaran is probably my favorite star, outside of the Sun, because it has such a cool name.

[@learnthesky]

If you like the name Aldebaran, you might like the star Albireo. It's another star with a cool name, and it is a fascinating optical binary with an orange star and a blue star. Check out my video on it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIO0n5WCfZKKbcksi=PMmroT8TyST1-zmE

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Fantastic detailed content.I can’t get enough of it especially as I’m new to astronomy✌️

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Love your stuff. Your videos are perfect for learning the night sky. Thank you very much.

[@brightbeacon]

This was excellent! This is also the first video of yours I have watched and subscribed after just 2.5 mins of watch time. 😊 I am so excited to start binge watching your other videos!

[@lavernemorton-carbone2904]

Excellent! Thank you for this really very interesting and informative astronomy video!

[@Ram_Milestone]

Thank you soo much.. That's Rohini, My mum.. ❤

[@bradatherton9369]

Thank you for this wonderful explanation. I was driving through Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia last night and when i was passing through the mostly dimly lit area around Leon WV at 230 AM i couldnt help but notice this magnificent star in the east. It was a new moon, too, making it a wonderful experience. I even pulled off at an exit and downloaded a star watcher's app, it was that illuminating (pun intended).

[@betweenevenings]

Janine hi 😊I had to let you know I am really excited about it. Orion’s Belt is right outside my window and followed your cues to find Aldebaran and Pleiades. It was all exactly as you said. Aldebaran was orange I could see the hue. Thanks a lot I love it your videos are really interesting 🙂🔥❤️🦉

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[@-Brent_James]

Very nice narrative voice... you are easy to listen to.. Thank You .. Brent James

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[@rjsmith6698]

What a great video for any astronomy novice to enjoy, and to learn more about this incredible universe! Well done, and thank you.

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I’ve just stumbled across this channel and what a great resource to learn the night sky , there should be a series on tv like this , people would love it I’m sure , well done 👍🏻

[@Momgoose80]

I really appreciate your presentation, keeping it simple and informative.

[@stevewhalen6973]

Thanks!

[@Astronurd]

Thanks for the video Janine 👍.

[@ES-ix1rn]

Thanks for your vids! Always loved Aldebaran as an easy to find but steal amazing celestial gem. You don't event need a telescope to enjoy the beautiful amber-like giant accompanied with a handful of diamond-like pebbles - the Hyades. 15x70 binoculars make it just so enjoyable.

[@learnthesky]

I love the Hyades as well. I'm more of a binocular user, and the Hyades are perfect when viewing with binocs. Thank you for watching!

[@chimchu3232]

These videos are great! Really helping me learn the stars

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Nice delivery on an excellent informative video. They're more than stories dear They're real but we don't know why yet.

[@andrewah15]

Thanks for an informative and educational video. Keep up the great work.

[@leandromantovani4282]

Hi Jan 👋 Awesome! It’s one of my favorite. The red eye of the bull.

[@JamesBond-u8p]

Thank you for explaining the facts of the planets & stars in lay terms everyone understands ❤!

[@larrymansfield9393]

I did not know it had an exoplanet! Super cool!

[@spedrun]

Love aldebaran, mostly because of its relation to the king in yellow. Also, cool name, plus taurus is a really pretty constellation

[@bofyonkers]

Great video! What is the name of the application that you used at the 5:05 time in the video?

[@learnthesky]

stars.chromeexperiments.com/

[@mandygershon8603]

Thanks for showing how to find it; I live in Alaska and skies here can look a bit different. I've been enjoying gorgeous views of Orion & the Big Dipper when skies are clear lately.

[@learnthesky]

I can imagine the sky does look different up north. I hope to visit some day and see the northern lights.

[@mandygershon8603]

@@learnthesky I believe the solar cycle will be in your favor for the next several years. ;) I've been getting notices daily for the last month of their appearances.

[@michaelogden5958]

I am asterismically/constellationly challenged. Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Orion, The Pleiades, and (in the southern hemisphere) The Southern Cross are pretty much all I can bring my feeble mind to imagine. 🙂 This is an interesting video series, though! Good work!

[@learnthesky]

I had a student once tell me that he is 'star blind'...he just could not see the shapes in the sky. But he still loved learning about it! Even if it is difficult to see or understand, it is worth trying to learn. Thank you for watching.

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[@uwekonnigsstaddt524]

3 thumbs up 👍 👍👍!!! Love your narration style. Very informative. I used to cofuse this star’s name with Pricess Leia (Star Wars) home world until I checked its spelling 😂 . Orion being more conspicuous, I use its belt to navigate my way to Taurus. Its name is spelled “Toro” in Spanish, which means the same as in Latin. By the way, the celestial equator passes almost in the middle of Orion, bifurcating the constellation into the northern and southern celestial hemispheres. Thanks again for sharing this video with us. And, as Jack Horkheimer used to say, keep looking up!!! Soli Deo Gloria. (Ps. 19)

[@ftumschk]

I'd be willing to bet that George Lucas got "Alderaan" from Aldebaran.

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Fantastic video thanks.

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[@Elbelede]

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[@cameron1376]

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Hi 👋 there I just subscribed.🖖. I like hearing about distances of these stars ⭐️ in light years 🎉also,why don’t officials give stars names sutch as Debby’ Cindy sandy or James’ Scottie or Leonard?

[@FloozieOne]

Very interesting. As a commercial fisherman my brother knows all the stars but I'm a complete moron when it comes to knowing what I am looking at. I do know how to find Orion though so the next time I'm in a dark place at night I'll look for Aldebaran. Thanks for the informative video.

[@kartikeyachiluka]

In ancient Indian/Bharat mythology Aldebran is called Rohini. The Moon happens to favor this star as one of his favorite consorts out of 27 others 🙏🖖🤙

[@learnthesky]

I love learning info like this! Thank you for sharing!

[@DublinSeafoodInc]

good times watching this

[@back-seat-driver1355]

Maybe i missed it, but what is the much bigger object in the first seconds of the video - right to the Aldebaran? I expected this to be the Aldebaran! thanks for any info.....

[@learnthesky]

It is a planet, although I’m not sure which one.

[@back-seat-driver1355]

@@learnthesky thank you so much! I was irritated in the beginning and thought this is aldebaran. Currently it is cloudy the whole time and so no chance to find the constellation and the star😞

[@AmatureAstronomer]

Nice.

[@vysakhak191]

What all stars and constellations can be located with reference to Orion? I know Sirius, Procyon, Aldebaran, Pleiades, Canis major and now Taurus. I'm asking because the sky is polluted with light and the only visible things are planets and orion constellation and also Sirius.

[@장시리우스]

요즘 🌟 별자리 보는 재미로 살아요😊

[@anjijack5392]

I've seen it in the night sky lately on my after dark walks. I know where the planets should be aligned and thought for a second it was Mars because I study the zodiacal cycle and knew it wasn't true.

[@michael2244]

How far away is the Pleiades Star Cluster from Earth?

[@monkmarionson6287]

Can you make a video about the constellation Lepus! In my country there is a very old map on a megalith that shows where aliens came here on Earth and where Earth people can find a planet to resettle there and it is in the constellation Lepus-mu Leporis

[@learnthesky]

I already have a video on Lepus: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHfTi4RtfL1rpac

[@maktham2006]

What I know that when the Sun will go red giant, it most probably will engulf Venus; however, this star has a close mass to the sun but its radius is less than the Mercury's orbit. Does that mean that Aldebaran hasn't reached its final giant size yet and it is still in the stage of expansion?

[@wbbartlett]

Aldebaran is one of those I've never heard said aloud before. In my head it is said completely differently! AL-da-ba-RAN - I had the emphasis all wrong.

[@learnthesky]

I've heard multiple pronunciations, so I think it's ok to have variation. Even the constellation patterns themselves have variations. I often worry about pronunciations, but ultimately it comes down the where you grow up and what part of the world you are from.

[@volkankahraman0771]

🇹🇷 Türk bayrağı üzerinde bir ay (🌙) ve yıldız var. Yaptığım bir araştırmaya göre bayrak üzerinde ki ⭐ Aldebaran imiş. Bu bilgi ne kadar doğru bilmiyorum.

[@ТимаКама]

VERY GOOD AND FUNNY

[@Mayra.Xochitl]

If Aldebaran is much bigger than our Sun. and they are both Stars. Is Aldebaran also a Sun? I like your content. thank you.

[@learnthesky]

They are both classified as stars, but they are in different stages of their life cycle. The Sun is the common name for our star. So they are similar that they are both stars, but different in color, size and temperature and stage in life.

[@Mayra.Xochitl]

@@learnthesky so what is the common name for a star like Aldebaran? do you know?

[@learnthesky]

@@Mayra.Xochitl Aldebaran is considered its common name. Astronomers would refer to it as Alpha Tauri because it is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus. There are multiple catalogs and naming systems for stars. Aldebaran and Alpha Tauri are the most common ones for this star.

[@Mayra.Xochitl]

@@learnthesky I appreciate you for further replying. and thank you.

[@captaingrizzly9511]

This star is by far the brightest one in the sky for me. the others don't even come close

[@captaingrizzly9511]

turns out I was wrong. the "star" i was looking at was no in fact Aldebaran, it was Jupiter!

[@kevanhubbard9673]

Very easy to find but we'll be losing Aldebaran soon as it's moving quite far west plus we have the rapidly increasing daylight.

[@AWMul]

Are these lot in peace or are they in jail too ?

[@lukedawg2787]

You can’t say it WILL come into contact with that star in 10 million years. For all we know, that star has already blown up. We humans are so simple minded when looking at the stars. Literally everything we see (outside of our own system) already happened hundreds, thousands, millions, even billions of years ago. We can’t just pick a dot in the sky and say hey let’s go visit it. You’d have to map out exactly where that star would be in 10 million years, you’d also have to map out every single rock between here and there to ensure you don’t hit anything that could push the probe off course. Not to mention, anything large out there that we haven’t detected that could trap it in its gravity. Even if we could travel at 99.99% the speed of light, you’d never make it. The moment you hit something even as small as a quarter, you would be vaporized. FYI there is a bunch of stuff floating around out there between here and there and trying to slow down from light speed in space would take you almost as long is it took to get there. As awesome as it would be to find an Earth 2.0 and walk on its surface or find another intelligent species out there. Even if we did, reaching them would literally be impossible. At least a face to face visit.

[@hivemind5127]

Hello fellows

[@VegaAstroVideos]

AI script can't pronounce Aldebaran

[@chaggy8409]

Thanks!