Inner Planets after sunset, the Pretty Moon Slips Over Evening Spica, and the Summer Milky Way Hosts Peak Ceres!
This image from the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This great ball of ancient stars is one of the closest of such stellar systems to the Earth and appears in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion) close to…
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