Antares, the brightest star of Scorpius, shines through a narrow gap in the rings of Saturn in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. Antares is a red supergiant, one of the largest stars in the galaxy. It will appear close to the Moon and Venus before dawn on January 29. [NASA/JPL/SSI]
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