What are the myths related to scorpion including the sun sign Scorpio.?
In Greek mythology, Scorpio was responsible for killing Orion. The two constellations were then placed almost 180° from each other to avoid further trouble. Scorpio is a true winter constellation for its southern hemisphere observers and contains some of the most spectacular deep sky objects like star clusters and nebulae, many of them easily visible through binoculars. At the heart of the Scorpion lies the star Antares – meaning “anti-Mars”, so called because you can easily confuse this reddish star with the planet Mars which is currently situated just beneath the constellation, fortunately shining much brighter than Antares. Antares, a red supergiant, is 520 light-years away from us and is 9,000 times more luminous than our Sun! It is not very dense however and has a mass of only 10 to 15 times that of the Sun. A case does perhaps exist for saying that the constellation of Scorpio has a tail that resembles a Scorpion’s. The obscure link between its Zodiac symbol and the pattern in th
