Friday, April 27, 2012

APOD 4.4

Antares and Clouds (April 17, 2012)
The star on the leftm covered in a yellow cloud o dust, is Antares in the constellation Scorpius.  It is about 550 light-years away, and 850 times the diameter of our Sun, 15 times more massive, and 10,000 times brighter.  The blue star on the far right is Al Niyat.

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