There’s ruby red Antares, ... NGC 6337, the Cheerio Nebula, is 2° southeast of NGC 6302 and 2.5° southwest of Upsilon. It is also best examined at moderate magnifications.

In this week's Astronomy magazine podcast, we'll help you observe the double stars Antares and Ras Algethi, globular clusters M19 and M62, and the Box Nebula (NGC 6309) in your July night sky.

NGC 6302 in Constellation Scorpius, ... To put things into perspective, Antares is 554.5 light years from the Sun. One light year is 5.88 trillion miles, ...

Antares is so big and luminous, it illuminates interstellar clouds in the adjacent Constellation Ophiuchus, ... (NGC 6240), star clusters, globular clusters and a dark Bok globule.

Earlier this month, new images revisiting NGC 346 and the Sombrero Galaxy were published. For more sublime space images, check out our Space Photo of the Week archives . Like this article?

For older Image of the Day pictures, please visit the Image of the Day archives. Pictured: NGC 2467. Tuesday, July 1, 2014: Astrophotographer Andrew Taber sent in a photo of the Milky Way glowing ...

Hubble observations of NGC 1754 confirm it as a compact, old globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with a core radius of 2.74 light years, half-mass radius of 10.2 light years, age of 12 ...

Spectroscopic analysis of 39 blue straggler stars in NGC 3201 determined a mean radial velocity of 498 km/s, effective temperatures between 6,260–8,690 K, metallicity of –1.42 dex, and a ...

Observations of the stellar dynamics of the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 show that its central black hole accounts for more than half of the mass of the host galaxy’s bulge, indicating ...

It can be found in the south, between the bright stars Aquila and Antares and beneath the constellation Ophiuchus, ... new images revisiting NGC 346 and the Sombrero Galaxy were published.