Cloud Serpent Ancient Mesoamerican cultures venerated Mixcoatl the “cloud serpent” as god of the hunt and associated him with the stars, Milky Way, and heavens. Today’s conventional wisdom might look askance at such seemingly quaint beliefs, but ancient Aztec priests could very well say, “Behold, I told you so” after coaxing him out from the hydrogen clouds of the Milky Way and capturing his delicate photons in micron sized pixel wells through the magic of long exposure digital imaging. Near the center of our own galaxy and deep in the dense star clouds of Sagittarius lies Mixcoatl’s modern day alias, NGC 6559.
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