Libra

Map created in Guide 7.0 with the figure outline based on Johannes Hevelius' Uranographia (1690). Click on the object's name to access its image or click on the name of adjacent constellation to see its map.

Libra, the Scales, corresponds to the seventh zodiacal constellation. While distinct in Babylonian tradition, it got absorbed into Scorpius (as its claws) in Greece and only Romans gave it its indepenndence again. Since antiquity the Scales were always associated with justice.

Large globular NGC5897 is the brightest deep sky object in this constellation.

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