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Brightest images Saturn (left) and Mars (right) frame the head of the Constellation Scorpius. Both planets are quite close, Saturn at 1300 (10^6) km and Mars at 82(10^6) km with the stars in the head of Scorpius at 400-585 Ly. Antares also shown below the head is at 604 Ly away. Above and to the right of Antares is the star Al Niyar 734.59 LY away. The three stars forming the head of Scorpius are (bottom and up and to the left) Pi Sco (585.56 LY), Dschubba (401.67 LY) and Acrab (530.334 LY) away, respectively. The planets formed much later, in relation to the stars, so, looking through the frame of the planets gives a view to a much older part of the universe. Compare to distance to our nearest neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, which is 2.54 million LY or 778 kilo parsecs from Earth.
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