Tag: Scorpius

Diamonds in the Night

Diamonds in the Night

(Click to enlarge) At the end of the week, when hopefully a bit of free time approaches, it is sometimes gratifying to see an image like this one, which captures the stunning beauty of the cosmos. Coming as it does from the European Southern Observatory in South America, it also reminds us that if the […]

Shining in the Blue Light of Creation

Shining in the Blue Light of Creation

Another amazing image from the European Southern Observatory, this one taken from the 2.2 meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.  The image shows a stellar nursery in the cloud Lupus 3,  5 light years across and located  600 light years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.  The coffee colored cloud is host to a […]

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