Scorpius is a constellation known for its distinctive shape and for being one of the 13 constellations of the zodiac, a belt-shaped area of the night sky that the sun, moon, and planets appear to ...

Next up is the Butterfly Cluster (M6), the first of a pair of Messier objects in the tail of Scorpius. From a dark site, you’ll pick out this bright (magnitude 4.2), large (33′) open cluster ...

The most southerly Messier objects are in Scorpius and Sagittarius, and the most northerly objects are in Cassiopeia and Ursa Major. For this reason, you can see all 110 objects only from ...

The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius on the night of June 9.

Here, among the stars of the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius, where the Milky Way appears at its widest and brightest, Messier objects abound. Others might be wispy clouds of gas and dust ...

stands 8° higher in the sky than the most southerly Messier object (M7 in Scorpius). When NGC 2467 is highest in the sky, it sits nearly 20° above the horizon from a latitude of 45° north.

This comes very close to the purpose of the Messier catalog. The Messier catalog is a summary of various astronomical objects. It was first published in 1774 by the French astronomer Charles ...

About half way between Antares and Graffias is another smaller globular cluster, Messier 80, also a fine sight in a telescope. Scorpius thus ... Extreme Stargazing Objects in the Night Sky ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy ... from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Another of the star-forming ...

The numbers indicate the order in which Messier discovered the objects, though he only found 103 of the current 110—additions were made by other astronomers in the mid-20th century. [Related ...