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your guide to constellations deep-sky

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objects planets and events tonight's sky

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as the sky grows darker Saturn and Mars

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begin to slip closer to the western

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glimpse them through a telescope before

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the summer night sky is filled with a

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treasure chest of bright jewels Scorpius

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is a striking constellation one of the

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few that distinctly resembles the object

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after which it was named the scorpion is

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easy to trace in the sky its head curved

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tail and venomous stinger are prominent

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at the Scorpions heart lies a reddish

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star its color closely resembles that of

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Mars known to the Greeks as Ares ancient

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Greek stargazers contemplating these two

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crimson objects named the star Antares

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which means rival of Ares a prominent

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lovely globular cluster in small

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telescopes m4 lies just to the right of

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Antares in Scorpius globular clusters

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are collections of hundreds of thousands

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of closely packed and gravitationally

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the center of our galaxy lies in the

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direction of the great constellation

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Sagittarius the Archer this area of the

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sky overflows with stars globular star

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look for Sagittarius by finding the

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group of stars commonly known as the

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teapot the handle top and spout are easy

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to find under dark skies the Milky Way

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seems to rise out of the teapots spout

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many deep sky targets reside in this

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area of the summer night sky a quick

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glance with binoculars reveals some

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spectacular objects the Lagoon nebulas

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gas and dust is brilliantly illuminated

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by the energy of the hot young stars

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in the three lobed tri Fed nebula dark

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dust lanes appear edged against the

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the Omega nebula glows brightly but we

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cannot see its hottest stars embedded

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deep inside infrared telescopes peering

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m22 one of the brightest globular

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clusters in the sky is visible to the

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naked eye it is a relatively nearby

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globular cluster only about 10,000 light

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before sunrise Venus appears in the

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morning rising grandly out of the

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eastern horizon elusive mercury joins

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Venus during the middle of the month

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making a brief appearance just before

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the annual Delta a queried meteor shower

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peaks on the night of July 28th to the

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29th watch for meteors radiating from

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the southeast after midnight expect to

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see up to 20 small yellowish meteors per

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hour the night sky is always a celestial