Watch as the familiar pattern of the Scorpius constellation distorts into a whole new perspective in this visualization. The opening of the sequence pans up to Scorpius in the night sky. The brightest star in the constellation, Antares, is a red supergiant known as the "heart of the Scorpion."
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
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Don’t quite understand why, but in the animation when we’re at an angle of 180 degrees I would have expected to see the familiar asterism again … confused.