... Antares is a huge star. ... Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius and one of the brighter stars in all the night sky. ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. ... On another April 12th, in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human to see planet Earth from space. ... Stars in the sky will typically appear to rise and set as the Earth turns. ...