Observe the deep sky in Ara

The constellation ARA (pronounced AIR-uh) the Altar was one of the “original” constellations of the Greeks. It appeared in Phaenomena, a 3rd-century-b.c. work by the Greek poet Aratus. He based it on a work written a century earlier by Eudoxus of Cnidus. The constellation’s position is easy to locate directly beneath the tail of Scorpius. Continue reading "Observe the deep sky in Ara" The post Observe the deep sky in Ara appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .

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