Hey Seekers - A previous edit of this episode had an error of showing an Aztec calendar when talking about Mayan astronomy. We have since made a change to remove that error and we apologize for not catching that before publish. Thank all of you for flagging it with us and keeping us honest.

@openskiesmedia

3 жыл бұрын

Great episode! However there is a typo at the end - it says “Januarary” or something like that in the calendar.

@bhanupratapsingh9899

3 жыл бұрын

Cover up, dark matter of the universe which is approximately 85% of it.

@TheHomies510

3 жыл бұрын

@@openskiesmedia Impressive eagle eyes! Great catch!

@openskiesmedia

3 жыл бұрын

@Cosmo Genesis aren’t we all?

@michaelporter1

3 жыл бұрын

Can you edit to fix the solar system @ 2:03 onward? Planets are orbiting in the wrong direction and at the wrong relative speeds (e.g. looks like Saturn is travelling faster than Jupiter). I get that it's an orrery, so I'm not bothered by the distances/sizes.

No one: Literally no one: Ancient astronomers looking at 4 stars in a line: Ah yes! A goat.

@vartikaotic

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations for 112 likes 😂❤️

@divyanshu_13

3 жыл бұрын

@@vartikaotic Thank you so much 🥰😁

@IvySnowFillyVideos

3 жыл бұрын

Mmmmbaaaah :D

@vivacristorey4728

3 жыл бұрын

Splitting of the moon also😂😂

This is actually a very nice topic. Please do an episode on how to find and identify the zodiacs during the night only with your eyes.

@Yeah.316

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah i was also thinking the same

@seebass7

3 жыл бұрын

how about not

@9000888sora

3 жыл бұрын

It isn’t the same at all latitudes.

@kiddflux

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@toserveman9317

3 жыл бұрын

Use the moon and or sun trail (zodiac -- i.e "animal trial") in your locale; that would be towards the south in the N hemi (e.g out of your back door after dinner). Everything "barrels" overhead from east (rising sun) to west. "Light pollution" makes this difficult in some ways BUT easier in others (fewer stars to overwhelm you). Very local trees too can box you in. When you see a bright star on that trail that DOESN'T twinkle, that's a planet. Use the net to or an astronomy prog (stellarium celestia) to investigate what it was. Learn more as the zodiac constellations (and their neighbors) rise in the east in your locale seasonally (e.g out of your back door after dinner).

I'm just confused on how they find a whole animal in 3 dots, or 4 lines in a million of them

@Theraot

3 жыл бұрын

Those animals are shapeshifters. That is why they had so many applications across history, from striking doors open, to volatile storage in computers.

@gabrielgomescunha

3 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@sarthakmaan7075

3 жыл бұрын

No actually on average you can see about 2200 stars at night

@megamanx466

3 жыл бұрын

Mostly imagination, but the original symbol has changed depending on the civilization that was using it. The "Ram" was once the "Farmer"(probably complete with a farming tool).😅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac

@davidklassen625

3 жыл бұрын

Wine. Lots of wine.

Haha Sarafina looks so happy to be hosting and talking about astronomy, you love to see it.

@markshiman5690

3 жыл бұрын

All the seeker people are paid well

@newmoodclown

3 жыл бұрын

@@markshiman5690 how much

Hey, great job with the first episode!

@azhari7968

3 жыл бұрын

Are you real

@morkovija

3 жыл бұрын

Folks supporting folks yay!

@Horizon__

3 жыл бұрын

Love your seeker episodes Julian!

Great topic! Idea: 12 mini series on each of the constellations, how to find them with just your eyes, and each of their more in depth relevance to science

The Signs of the Zodiac are entirely different from the Constellations that lie on the ecliptic. The 12 Signs are 30° slices of the ecliptic starting from the Vernal Equinox Point (where the ecliptic and the celestial equator meet). This Ecliptic Coordinate System was established some two thousand years ago by Ptolemy in Alexandria and is still used today. The Signs were named after the constellations as a legacy from the past. However, it was known at the time of inception that the Signs of the Zodiac (which corresponded with the Earth’s seasons) would gradually move out of alignment with the Constellations due to the precession of the Equinox. So, the Signs of the Zodiac are a mathematical construct. The position, shape, distance and size of the Constellations that lie on the ecliptic including Ophiuchus are not relevant to the Signs of the Zodiac.

yay!! i’m so excited for this series; go sarafina!!

Such an informative and beautiful video - excellent job Sarafina! 💜

Thanks Sarafina. Glad to have here at Seeker. Looking forward for your videos.

Great episode! I would love to see more in this series ;)

Definitely will be sharing this with my friends and family who don't know a lot about astronomy! Super proud of you, Sarafina! Looking forward to more videos with you in them!

YESS Sarafina! Love this video

This video is possibly the best thing I've watched today/honestly this week!

I was obsessed with Orion from the day I started to observe, I would like a video about Orion facts from Seeker :)

@heatherbryant4197

3 жыл бұрын

Orion is super useful in finding other constellations too, especially because it's usually easy to find!

@PremChand-Salva

3 жыл бұрын

You can see the winter Hexagon asterism comprising of brightest stars from 6 constellations(Canis Major, Orion, Canis minor, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini) which are Sirius, Rigel, procyon, Aldeberan, Capella, Pollux

@bemusedbandersnatch2069

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't that have both bellatrix and betelgeuse for stars in the constellation?

A great beginning to this series! Please explain some of the planet movement terms such as occulting and conjunction.

This is such an amazing video! Very informative ✌️

Sarafina this is great to get a nice basic understanding to start in astronomy. Just Superb

Hey, thanks for information and knowledge sharing. Astronomy holds true hope in these dismal times. I understand a disciplined approach is most requisite.

3:39, that's some nifty GNC engineering, very impressive job on the part of the team.

Wow! Learning something new every day. Will have to look up more often. 🌜🌕🌛

This was so cool. She is great at breakin it down.

Would have been nice to get more details about how many days the sun spends in each zodiac, as well as how these numbers have changed between the time the zodiac was created and today.

Excellent video, Serafina, I love the way you explain science in language everybody can understand.

Surprised at what I can still learn. Great video!

This was most informative and useful.

Very interesting video. Thanks

New favorite series!!

0:10 Flat Earthers: Heavy breatihing

@accurategamer7085

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 no this can be true

@user-jt6ej7vh2p

3 жыл бұрын

😅

@ImieNazwiskoOK

3 жыл бұрын

@@accurategamer7085 ?

@Rahul-ur3jy

3 жыл бұрын

Earth is not flat It's not spherical *It's donut shaped*

@alwaysmeepin9609

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rahul-ur3jy herecy! It’s a T-Rex.

I'm loving this!

Well done Serafina! What about doing a video on how they assigned the objects to the constellations? I can’t see a ram in Capricorn, for example.

The three constellations I'd like y'all to cover are Orion, Taurus, and Pleiades. Thanks for the great video 🤗

Fantastic! Thanks

1:12 someone explain to me how that is in the shape of a ram? Hmm

@greatdimkpa1467

3 жыл бұрын

They aren't really the shapes of what they call them I know it's stupid

@rashim

3 жыл бұрын

It might be due to ancient beliefs about what animals represent to them... Or it just might be the first thing that came to their mind😅

@CosmicErrata

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen rams, can confirm they are lines and dots.

@MiraiSarutobii

3 жыл бұрын

She said that because ancient people believed it to be so, it is really not

@ImieNazwiskoOK

3 жыл бұрын

Small dog is even better. Two Dots only.

Interesting the last bit about the sun spending 18 days in Ophiuchus the serpent bearer...the 13th zodiac. Id like to see more on solstice alignments and ancient structures or zodiac signs & constellation alignments on the ecliptic.

Perhaps to us today, a constellation doesn't look like what someone 4000 years ago thought, our imaginations may not be less than that farmer back then, but we imagine at a different level. We have learned so much since then, and it all started with OBSERVING the world and sky around us, day and night.

@prajyotchikte8655

3 жыл бұрын

Farmers knows the environment and natural science better than anyone,, they are always connected to her in some form or other .physically ,mentally ,spiritually. I think they create life from what they have by working according to nature and give it to someone who doesn't even know how he is able to have it because money is easy to get than a food .

@arvindiyer1649

3 жыл бұрын

Skies would have been clearer at thay time allowing them to see more stars and make out a more visible pattern than today

Nice job, Sarafina !

Excited for next episode 🙃

@JAYBILLION_DOLLAR

3 жыл бұрын

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Great video! Though I do wish you had explained WHY those constellations are along our orbital plane (or vice versa)

@JAYBILLION_DOLLAR

3 жыл бұрын

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Hi Sarafina! Loving the show. Could you cover the history of measuring astronomical distances, for example using stellar parallaxes? :-)

I'm so into this!

Welcome to the Seeker group New member!! Woo Hoo !!!🥳

The necessity of having zodiac patterns in the sky allows us to communicate over a wide distance of time and space the location of stars and how they have moved through the sky over over the millennia. Constellations and having an intimate knowledge of their movement through the sky throughout the year facilitated not only Marine navigation it also aided in terrestrial navigation when geographical renderings were either incomplete or nonexistant.

One the first asterisms I was taught to find with binoculars was the "coat hanger". A future topic might be interesting things you can see with binoculars

@heatherbryant4197

3 жыл бұрын

I'd never heard of that one before! Do you live in the Southern hemisphere?

I love the beauty of the astrology, calendars, and naked eye astronomy. Whatever gets you to look up at the sky is great in my universe. Unfortunately, most astrologers don't look up. Nor do many astrophysisists, for that matter.

Thanks Seeker for bringing Sarafina, she is the best!

I'd love to see a video on how the heavier elements came into being.

I'm like Whaa!!!...so awesome to know this Ecliptic Line!!

Just remember people your zodiac sign isn’t a personality trait.

@bananaforscale1283

3 жыл бұрын

Of course it is. It means dreamy and gullible.

@abrahanrodriguez9003

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is.

@monochromesoul5873

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on which one

@toserveman9317

3 жыл бұрын

Most athletes are disproportionally+ spring births in N hemi; many famous science talking heads are too. Fact. +Autumn birth is most common (winter holiday conception).

Great timing! I was just talking to a friend the other day about how astrology is not science, despite her claims of EM fields affecting us...

@kweisel

3 жыл бұрын

EM fields do affect people🤔

@CausticLemons7

3 жыл бұрын

@@kweisel In the sense of Jupiter affecting personality they don't.

Very nice video 👍

@JAYBILLION_DOLLAR

3 жыл бұрын

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SARAFINA THIS IS AMAZING!!!! !

You are great ! Cover something about supernova in next one ?

Q: How many "stars" have disappeared from the "Star Signs" since the first drawings?

@plane9182

3 жыл бұрын

none of them

@cosmic2096

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing disappeared

@EnigmaticLucas

3 жыл бұрын

We don’t know. Because of how far away they are, we’re seeing them as they were in the past, so it’s possible that some of them have disappeared recently enough for us to have no way of knowing they did.

@LolUGotBusted

3 жыл бұрын

There are stars no longer visible largely due to light pollution

hey seeker, please make a video on astrobiology!

At around 1:20 you talked about the infamous Mayan calendar but the video shows the Aztec Sun Stone. Aztecs and Mayans were civilization separated by both time and space, and although we know that Mayans influenced Aztecs and many others Mesoamerican civilizations I think this error should have been caught by such a professional team.

@TheHomies510

3 жыл бұрын

Great catch, Esteban. I am sorry we didn't catch it and appreciate our audience keeping us honest.

Talk about Orion's belt, the Three 🤴's and the brightest 🌟.

I really enjoyed this. As a kid I read all I could abt astronomy. I wanted 2 b an astronaut. To this day, sky gazing is still in my top 3 things 2 do.

yes i'm interested

Please give us more knowledge about big dipper , hunter, Lyra, leo and hydra constilation.

10/10 video!!!!

Love the ecliptic! 🤩

Please talk about Orion. My favorite

Here’s Why Zodiac Constellations Are Still Used In The Future NASA Astronomy

My favorite constellation is cygnus. It is so beautifully lined up with the milky way and I'm curious as to what the nebula is that looks so similar to libra.

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3 жыл бұрын

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It is already mentioned in Indian vedic period before Greek about relationship between 🌟 stars and earth.

I really enjoyed this video

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3 жыл бұрын

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Use of constellation in maritime navigation/Importance of constellation to travelers

We only observe the universe one moment at a time. But what if the actual size of the universe is the sum of it's size at every moment from beginning to end? The universe that exists now is not the same universe that existed a second ago. Like a stack of photos we only see one at a time but the whole stack makes a movie. Maybe our experience of time is us moving between universes? Upon further consideration in this framework you wouldn't necessarily need a third dimension of space it would arise as a consequence of moving through a multiverse.

really cool

Should talk about where are all the stars of the constellations are located relative to the milky way.

@tekila00985

3 жыл бұрын

I saw a visualization on one of Anton Petrov's videos. Even with the distance between them, they are almost all in the spiral arm.

@tekila00985

3 жыл бұрын

Nonetheless even though they are very far far away some of them. They are closer than we think.

Welcome to seeker! You seem a bit nervous in this video. I'm sure it'll get better.

Nice video! So these constellations are only seen from our Solar system, that means we couldn't use it to navigate if we were travelling to other stars - but what should we use then?

@massimookissed1023

3 жыл бұрын

Pulsars & Cepheid variable stars. Although if you went too far from home, you wouldn't see the pulsars we can see from here.

How about a talk on Orion?

Hope to see more such videos from u xD

Did u cover the topic of vortex movement of earth and other solar system objects.? I would love to see ur explanation on it. Regards

Yes - like the other comments, I can understand seeing the swan in cygnus, for example, but 3 or 4 stars in a line making a goat or ram, they must have been on the mescaline or something in those days lol.

@eleanorweaverley1105

3 жыл бұрын

You are quite wrong about that BECAUSE "ram" means "Aries" in Latin and Aries♈ sign is associated with "Sheep"🐏 symbol and whereas "goat"🐐 is associated with "Capricorn"♑ symbol SO,before you say such nonsense the next time to sound cool do some REAL research,GOOGLE IS FREE!!!!

I would love to know more about exoplanets :)

I wonder how Seeker will read 200(as of writing this) comments and find those comments which are suggestions for the next video? That must be hard work. And this can be compared to finding constellations.

Orion is always in the sky when I walk down my driveway. I was surprised to see it had moved like 20 degrees in what seemed like a week.

@massimookissed1023

3 жыл бұрын

More like 7° in a week. 360° ÷ 52 weeks.

hello.. can I invite you guys as a guest speaker via zoom meeting for my grade 9 students? we are currently on the topic of stars and constellations and astronomy vs. astrology... thank you

Very enjoyable, thank you. I had a question you may know the answer. A friend told me that present day astrology bases it's signs on the location of the stars 2,000 years ago. And according to the present location of the stars, I'm not an Aries but a Pisces . Is that true?

Thank you to the fantastic Astrophysicist Sarafina Nance for sharing her passion for astronomy and everything physics

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3 жыл бұрын

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Make a video on supernova

I want to know about 13 constellation

"Because Kepler had symmetrical solar panels the solar pressure was enough to keep it oriented in one direction, and with the sun pushing it slightly ..." This is an astounding statement considering the science and engineering and knowledge to know that this is *possible* and then to USE IT. "One of NASA's best hacks." LOL An incredible understatement. Thanks Serafina!!

You should cover light pollution!

I saw a group of stars that I named the constellation of picachu

Out of curiosity, is the ecliptic line for the solar system roughly in line with the plane of the milky way?

Astrologers do not assume the zodiac is regular. We make it regular so that it works for timekeeping purposes. Also, we're available for interviews as a rule.

do one about subaru and seven sisters

Have the constellations changed over the centuries? And if they have how they were 2k years ago?

@guystalnaker5184

3 жыл бұрын

They have. A interesting and fun experiment is to use a computer application like Stellarium and set it's date to the past, o rspeed up it's timing (from "real time" to 1000 years-per-second). You can watch the constellations change, or see what they looked like 10,000 years ago

@inflivia

3 жыл бұрын

The star's alignment against particular dates & calendars has changed, the stars themselves will look the same for a very long time.

Ancient astrological data may better support more recent research if retrospectively corrected for astronomic progression(?), even though it may remain relatively more challenging to be considered a true "science" since applying the scientific-method and statistical analysis to sufficient study populations for double-blind or triple-blind relationships between causes and effects (or even analyze via standardized epidemiological protocols) , not to mention factoring in considerations such as: gender, spaceweather, anthropogenic EMF, altitude, genetic neuropsychologic predispositions, cultural & socioeconomic influences, relocation to distant geographic regions, and distant sources of regional activity (e.g.: dynamics of an attack by a country under the influence of a remote astrological environment), Etc.. Nevertheless, I consider it important to contine learning, researching, and recording as much astrological data as possible, esp as A.I. & supercomputing (& on-going detection of characterizations of previously unknown energies, such as quantum entanglement, dark matter, Etc.) developments are accelerating the scientific communities' abilities to randomly search & compare databases for objectively recognizing patterns and may eventually discover that the locations of astral bodies in space-time may indeed influence biological organisms (formation of organelles, cells, tissues, organs and neural networks of organisms, and also growth, maintenance, and functions going forward). Insofar as our brain and nervous system as well as our endocrine system/hormones have been proven to influence perceptions, feelings, and personality, why rule out that planetary influences (via their own gravity, direct and indirect interactions w/gravitational fields of other astral bodies, effects on any number of wave forms &/or various combinations of collective flows/streams travelling through and around our solar system, emission of sound waves &/or light rays (Etc.)? In general, I believe that science benefits from as much collaboration between fields of study as possible because: the perspectives from which various knowledge can be obtained when considering any event of interest seem nearly limitless, the interconnectedness of events necessarily impacts our interpretation of artificially isolated events when applying the knowledge acquired to the cosmos beyond a region of controlled conditions, and that the growing total body of knowledge across recorded human history has surpassed the human brain's ability to even retain no less cross reference, and I believe that pseudosciences incl Astrology should be included for consideration since no theories are relied upon as factual truths unless & until proven, Etc.

Please have a video about ophiuchus 🙇🏽‍♂️

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3 жыл бұрын

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Talk more about how the dates are months off from the horoscopes

When playing with Stellarium we discovered the feature showing different "cultures" for constellations - some of the images there are really beautiful. Since many of the images are not available online, i did a super simple website to showcase them - etoiles.netlify.app/. It would be great if you could spend a bit of time talking about how each culture saw the stars a bit differently. Also, it would be great to show more cultures - ie there is not much about how Africa saw the constellations in Stellarium nor online ...

0:35 they do determine our personalities and here is why. because people believe in them, when people believes in horoscope they think and act accordingly to their believes, just like religions. therefor more people believe in horoscope more accurate it is.

Can you talk about Chinese constellations? Are they still used in astronomy? Can you talk about tribal constellations like those used by the Native Americans or the Aboriginal Australians?

@ThaGodLegacyHD

3 жыл бұрын

Austr (alians)

Cnstellations tells us our position in the solar system. So based on the constellations,how do I know which position I am in the solar system. Like if I see Orion, that means I'm in one particular position in the system. What is that position is that ?