Sentence examples for Scorpius from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A constellation of the zodiac, roughly shaped like a scorpion. Its brightest star is the red giant Antares.
23 ♏ Scorpius (Scorpion): Oct. 24 Nov.
Scorpius X-1 is about 9,000 light-years from Earth.
Scorpius, ( Latin: "Scorpion") in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying in the southern sky between Libra and Sagittarius, at about 16 hours 30 minutes right ascension and 30° south declination.
Scorpius X-1 was observed in visible light for the first time in 1966.
The Crab is the second brightest X-ray source in the sky, after Scorpius X-1 (an X-ray binary star).
The northern Atlantic short-horned sculpin, or bullrout (Myoxocephalus scorpius), is known to build a rudimentary nest guarded by the male, as does the freshwater European miller's thumb.
Greek respect for scorpions prompted the naming of the constellation Scorpius, a sign of the zodiac.
Another transient X-ray source, called GRO J1655-40, which lies some 10,000 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Scorpius, was first detected by the Earth-orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in 1994.
Scorpius X-1 is a close double star, one component of which is optically invisible a neutron star.
They are arranged in a nearly spherical halo around the Milky Way, with relatively few toward the galactic plane, but about a third of them are concentrated around the galactic centre, as satellite systems in the rich Sagittarius-Scorpius star fields.
Most are widely scattered in galactic latitude, but about a third of them are concentrated around the galactic centre, as satellite systems in the rich Sagittarius-Scorpius star fields.
