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Chris, you are absolutely correct. Getting people to use the correct name Scorpius is an ongoing battle. You would expect people on this site to know better. But then they use stupid terms like "anti-corpuscular rays" - we need people like Chris to try educate them.

In todays APOD they talk about "crepuscular rays" and "anticrepuscular rays". The word "crepuscular" means "twilight" - hence there are birds that are "crepuscular" meaning they are active during twilight, morning or evening. There is no such thing a...