2006-08-20 13:18:17 · 4 answers · asked by ? 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You are most likely thinking of Fornax, aka "the furnace". Founded by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the mid-eighteenth century, it is located not to off of Eridanus
2006-08-22 03:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by iam"A"godofsheep 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fornax (Latin for furnace) is a southern constellation which was first introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille under the name Fornax Chemica (Latin for chemical furnace). The Fornax Dwarf galaxy lies in Fornax.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located within the constellation.
At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown "dwarf" galaxies in this constellation.
They also described Fornax as being "on Earth's doorstep", because α Fornacis is only about 46 Light years away.
Follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that Ultra Compact Dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about 120 light years across.
"Tens of millions of stars are squashed into what is a tiny volume by galaxy standards," the observatory said in a statement.
The Fornax galaxy cluster lies primarily in the constellation Fornax.
2006-08-20 14:08:01 · answer #2 · answered by Turquoise 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is Fornax
Abbreviation: For
Genitive: Fornacis
Translation: The Laboratory Furnace
Fornax was named by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. It was named the Chemical Furnace in honor of Antoine Lavoisier, who was guillotined in the French Revolution in 1794. He created it out of several faint stars in the constellation Eridanus.
2006-08-23 20:34:07 · answer #3 · answered by spaceprt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fornax
2006-08-20 13:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Jill&Justin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋