Venus isn't at its brightest right now, but it's still relatively bright. If you're looking for a hand tracking down the planet, an app like SkyView can be helpful. It won't be too long after this pairing that Antares will dip below the horizon for the season, not coming back into sight for months, per EarthSky. If you look just a little further south, you'll also be able to see Saturn, Jupiter, and the moon, which will not be as close together as they were earlier in the week. They're easy to see because they're some of the brightest objects in the night sky.
Jupiter is currently the brightest object in the sky other than the moon. Time-exposure pictures of the region around Antares reveal an unusually colorful area of gas : yellow, blue and red are all prominent in pictures from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh and the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Additionally, the area has several other objects crowding the field of view: the nebula gas cloud Rho Ophiuchi and M4, a globular cluster or collection of stars.
Antares was the inspiration for the name of a rocket now being tested by Orbital Sciences. Antares is often compared to other red supergiants of its type, so that scientists can better understand how these stars are structured and under what conditions they will eventually become supernovas.
They could see four dust clumps moving in that short time frame, and a possible new clump forming in because that clump wasn't visible in They did an estimate of the expansion velocity of these dust clouds, and concluded that it is difficult to explain these velocities based on a simple outflow of material from the star; perhaps the dust clouds are randomly ejected. The team imaged Antares using infrared interferometry, providing the best-ever angular resolution on a star's disk.
They interferometer signal suggests the presence of convective cells. But if Antares ever does become a supernova, you can be sure it will be one of the most amazing astronomical events in modern history! The name Antares has an unusual origin. Most of us are familiar with the Roman names of the planets, such as Mercury, Venus, Mars.
But take a moment to consider the Greek forms: Hermes, Aphrodite, and Ares. The word Ares Mars is nestled into the name Antares. Scorpius was a larger constellation until about 2, years ago, when the Romans assigned some of the stars to Libra.
Other cultures have other names for the star and its constellation. In ancient China, Antares was called the Fire Star, for obvious reasons, and was part of a dragon constellation. In native Hawaiian stories, the constellation is instead a fishhook. In one tale, the popular folk hero Maui uses the hook to pull the Hawaiian Islands up out of the sea.
Antares Lehua Kona sits just above the point of the hook. Summer evenings are a fine time to seek out Antares, when the star rides about as high as it will get along the southern horizon.
Fortunately, Scorpius itself is an easily recognizable constellation, although again, its position in the south can make viewing a challenge. Daniel Johnson is a Wisconsin-based freelance writer and professional photographer and the co-author of over a dozen books. The moon and major planets all closely follow the ecliptic.
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