Constellation Scorpius News Today

In this Skywatch 16, Newswatch 16's John Hickey shows us how to spot the Starlink satellite as well as some other gems in the sky.

If you’ve never been much of a skywatcher, these August nights will give you all kinds of good reasons to get into the habit.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures this 'Butterfly Nebula,' holding a dying star five times the sun's mass!

Shaula and Lesath, known as the "stinger stars," mark the location of the scorpion's stinger in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius.

The constellation Scorpius resembles a scorpion, complete with a curved tail. Two stars close together near the end of the tail - Shaula and Lesath - represent the Scorpion's Stinger. They're easy to spot and fun to get to know!

This week it looks like we may have found several planets that actually support life. our tom foreman explains. >> reporter: as of today we believe were on the only inhabitable planet in our solar system. but that doesnt necessarily mean that we are alone in the universe because scientists have been looking way out there, about 22 light years away, to this constellation scorpius, where they have found a star that they say is being circled by not one, not two, but three planets that could possibl...