A tall constellation, Scorpius the scorpion crawls across the southern sky as soon as it gets dark. Its brightest star, Antares, glows with a distinctive orange-red hue. Shaula, at the tip of its tail ...

Brilliant stars shine like dusty diamonds in the tail of a cosmic scorpion in a dazzling new image and video captured by a telescope in Chile. The new photo, taken by astronomers with the European ...

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A new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the bright star cluster Messier 7. Easily spotted with the naked eye close to the tail of the constellation of Scorpius, it is one of the ...

Most of the constellations seem pretty much random arrangements of stars to modern eyes. Scorpius is one of the few that actually resembles its namesake, the Scorpion. As seen by observers in the ...

Last week, I wrote about some of the celestial treasures of the constellation Scorpius, the scorpion, one of the few constellations that look like what they’re supposed to be. At these far northern ...

The head of Scorpius with the bright orange star Antares (left of center) rises in the southeastern sky as soon as darkness falls in late May. The "clouds" at far left are part of the band of the ...

For observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the constellation Scorpius appears low in the southern sky on warm June evenings. Most of the constellations seem pretty much random arrangements of stars to ...

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