From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with Hillsdale's Tim Dulch from the physics department about the

dimming and brightening of the star Beetlejuice. Dr. John Marini will join us to talk about the

administrative states in Washington and Daniel Copeland on The Wind in the Willows and Hillsdale's new online course on classic children's literature.

First, we're joined by Dr. Timothy Dulch, assistant professor of physics at Hillsdale College. Dr. Dolch, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me, Scott. Good to talk to you.

Talking today about the, it would be a different conversation if we had this maybe a month

or two ago because things changed.

Originally, we were going to talk about the dimming of Beetlejuice, the star, but now we

get to talk about the dimming and re-brightening of Beetlejuice.

So, first of all, tell us, tell us about this star, Beetle Juice. Where is it located in the sky, in the solar system, how far away,

things like that? Right. Beetlejuice is a very famous star. It's been known for many millennia, and in fact, the name is a corruption

of an old Arabic name for it. It's in the constellation Orion. So if you find Orion with the three

stars that are his belt, if you go to the upper left of that, it would be Orion's right shoulder if he's facing us.

And it's a famously red star.

And it's about 700 light years away, which sounds far, meaning just light takes 700 years to get here.

So when we see it, we see it as it was 700 years ago.

But for astronomy, that's actually pretty close.

So it's a pretty nearby star.

And it's somewhere between 10 and 20 times the mass of the sun. So as stars go, it's pretty massive. And

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