Sentences with phrase «constellation vela»

Its recent work helped a team of South African and international collaborators to uncover a previously unknown major supercluster in the constellation Vela.

Dr. Southworth and his colleagues studied the exoplanet, which orbits a very low - mass star in the southern constellation Vela, using the GRONB imaging instrument on the Chilean telescope.

The planet in question, GJ 1132b, orbits the very low - mass star GJ 1132 in the Southern constellation Vela, at a distance of 39 light - years from Earth.

Kashlinsky's WMAP analysis found that hundreds of gas - rich galaxy clusters appeared to be streaming towards a region in the sky between the constellations Vela and Centaurus.

According to the observations, the clusters are all moving towards a patch of sky that lies between the constellations Vela and Centaurus.

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Portegies Zwart says the best place to look is in the plane of the galaxy, in the constellations of Vela and Cygnus, along the sun's trajectory around the galactic center.

The bright star, located in one of those constellations called Vela, has been unofficially called Alsephina since at least 1660, when the Dutch - German mapmaker Andreas Cellarius illustrated the star in Harmonia Macrocosmica, a book about the cosmos.

This pretty planetary nebula is found in the constellation of Vela and is also known as the Eight - Burst nebula.

About 11,000 years ago a star in the constellation of Vela exploded.

A spectacular example is named Herbig Haro 46 - 47 and is situated about 1400 light - years from Earth in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails).

This planetary nebula, located roughly 5,000 light - years away in the Vela constellation, is host to a hot, massive dy... view image

This southern constellation is a member of the «Heavenly (or Cosmic) Waters» group of nine constellations (which also includes Delphinus, Equuleus, Eridanus, Piscis Austrinus, Carina, Puppis, Vela, and Pyxis).

A large southern constellation, Carina is the keel of the even larger, ancient constellation of Argo Navis, the ship of the Argonauts, which also included Vela's sibling constellations of Puppis, Pyxis, and Vela.

This planetary nebula, located roughly 5,000 light - years away in the Vela constellation, is host to a hot, massive dying star that is rapidly disintegrating, losing its mass.

The clusters were found to be heading toward a 20 - degree wide patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela.