Northern Hemisphere observers can locate Scorpius low on the southern horizon. Here, an astronomer points at the star cluster Messier 7 in the tail of Scorpius, with the cluster above the Sweetgrass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WJHL) – This week offers several easy-to-spot celestial sights. From familiar constellations to bright stars and planets, there ...

NEW YORK — A spectacular new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a likely new star forming in the Milky Way's Scorpius constellation. The telescope, which is jointly operated by NASA and the ...

July is the best time of the year to observe two distant star clusters that are relatively close to each other. Given their close proximity to the constellation Scorpius, these two star clusters are ...

If you’ve been trying to find a time to stargaze for the first time in 2024, make it this week. With a crescent moon shrinking to a new moon midweek, the skies are dark and ideal for picking out ...

On early evenings in June, just after twilight, look for a moderately bright star in the low southeast sky a little above the horizon. It has a decidedly ruddy hue to it. That’s Antares, the brightest ...

Summer evening skies are home to some classic constellations. One of them is Scorpius the Scorpion, the tenth brightest constellation in the night sky and one of the few constellations that actually ...

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 ...