The image of Scorpius up close is spectacular, and breathtaking. It's amazing what you cand o if you just have a good camera. I didn't think it was possible to see something so far away with a camera. It's amazing to me that when people look up at Scorpius we see just a few bright stars. But if we new that this was what it looked like when we saw it it would be so much more captivating. To make the picture look like it does and bring out the colors it was taken in a red exposure which is emitted by hydrogen. This picture has a lot of dust visible which is unlike the common household dust we have here on earth interstellar dust are small clumps of carbon and silicates. The dust is what causes large dark patches in the milky way.
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