Scorpius is a zodiac constellation located in the Southern celestial hemisphere, where it sits near the center of the Milky Way, between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east.

It is also a luminous star, 340,000 times brighter than the Sun,[7] altought is too faint to be seen to the naked eye, with a brightness varying from 6.5 to 9.6.

It is a compact Shapley class II cluster; the classification indicates that it is highly concentrated and dense at its nucleus.

According to one version, Orion boasted to the goddess Artemis and her mother, Leto, that he would kill every animal on Earth.

[13] Their battle caught the attention of Zeus, who raised both combatants to the sky to serve as a reminder for mortals to curb their excessive pride.

In another version of the myth, Artemis' twin brother, Apollo, was the one who sent the scorpion to kill Orion after the hunter earned the goddess' favor by admitting she was better than him.

In a Greek myth without Orion, the celestial scorpion encountered Phaethon while he was driving his father Helios' Sun Chariot.

Libra was known as the Claws of the Scorpion in Babylonian (zibānītu (compare Arabic zubānā)) and in Greek (χηλαι).