Fornax

Fornax
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Fornax is a constellation in the southern hemisphere. It lies in a bend of the celestial river, the constellation Eridanus. Its name is Latin for "furnace.

Fornax
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Fornax, the Furnace, was invented in 1752 by de Lacaille in his effort to assing constellations to Southern skies.

FORNAX
Fornax, the Furnace, lies south of Cetus and within the bend of Eridanus, the River. The luminary, Alpha Fornacis, lies just below center. The bright star near the lower right corner is Acamar, Theta Eridani.

Fornax
Abbreviation: For
Genitive: Fornacis
Translation: The Laboratory Furnace
Peoria Astronomical Society Fornax Page
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Fornax, the furnace:
Created between 1750 and 1754 by the astronomer Nicolas Louis de La Caille. The constellation is composed of stars found between one of the bends of the constellation of Eridanus, the river.

The Fornax galaxy cluster lies primarily in the constellation Fornax.
Mythology ...

Fornax was created out of several faint stars in the southern part of Eridanus, also by de Lacaille, who originally named this obscure grouping le Fourneau (the Furnace) in the 1750s.

Fornax
Abbreviation: For English name: Furnace Coordinates see Stellar data
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Fornax was portrayed as a complex-looking experiment under the name Apparatus Chemicus in the Uranographia of Johann Bode. To see Lacaille's much simpler original, click here.
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Fornax
1. A faint constellation in the southern sky. 2. A dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way and lies 440,000 light-years from the Galactic center. It was discovered in 1938.
Fornax A ...

Fornax (Furnace)
No Saint given; possibly constellation of the Incendiary Saint (Anime)
Origin of the constellation: 18th century, Lacaille ...

Fornax
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Fornax(furnace), Gemini(twins), Grus(the crane), Hercules, Horologium(pendulum clock), ...

Fornax is another of those constellations created by the Abbé [Abbot] Nicholas Louis de La Caille (1713-1762), ...

The Fornax Irregular Cluster
A Galaxy Cluster showing Gravitational Lensing
Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
Gravitational Lensing by Clusters ...

The Fornax dwarf galaxy, where extremely low metallicity stars have been discovered. Image: ESO/DSS.

Location of Fornax Disaster
Gemini (Geminorum)
Pollux (Beta Geminorum)
Iota Geminorum
Grus (Gruis) Hercules (Herculis) ...

For, Forn (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Fornax. See constellation. forbidden line (NASA SP-7, 1965) A line in a spectrum resulting from a transition from a metastable state within an atom.

Galaxy clusters, like the Fornax cluster, contain hundreds or even thousands of individual galaxies. Within the Fornax cluster, there is a considerable amount of gas lying between the galaxies.

Located in the constellation Fornax in the southern skies, LP 944-20 is one of the best studied brown dwarfs because it is only 16 light years from Earth.

The accompanying image shows the latest battleground in the quest to determine H0, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 in the Fornax Cluster, another rich cluster of galaxies like the Virgo Cluster, lying about 15 Mpc away.

Eridanus is located near the constellations Fornax and Lepus. The brightest star in Eridanus, alpha Eri, is Achernar (meaning "end of the river"); it is the 9th brightest star in the sky (magnitude 0.46).

Alpha Fornacis (Î± For / Î± Fornacis) is the brightest star in the constellation Fornax and only brighter than 4.0 magunitude there.

The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. The earliest furnace was excavated at Balakot, a site of the Indus Valley Civilization, dating back to its mature phase ....
was set up.

Walker and his co-author Jorge Penarrubia (University of Cambridge, UK) analyzed the dark matter distribution in two Milky Way neighbors: the Fornax and Sculptor dwarf galaxies.

The Local Group also includes Fornax, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, M32, M33, M101, and 9 dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The center of the Local Group is roughly between the and the Andromeda Galaxy, M31.

The galaxies which are gravitationally bound to the , including Fornax, the , M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), M32, M33, M101, Small Magellanic Cloud, and 9 dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

The Milky Way's satellite system consists of Sag DEG, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Draco Dwarf, Carina Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, Leo I, Leo II, Tucana Dwarf, ...

a poor, irregular cluster with some 20 certain members: three spirals (the Galaxy, M31, and M33); four irregulars (LMC, SMC, IC 1613, and NGC 6822); and about 13 intermediate or dwarf ellipticals (NGC 147; NGC 185; NGC 205; M32; the Sculptor, Fornax, ...

Some of the dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are Canis Major Dwarf (the closest), Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, and Leo I Dwarf.

of Tokyo led by Yasushi Ikebe reported on dark-matter clumping in the galactic cluster Fornax. Clumps were found in two distinct regions: around a massive galaxy in the center of the cluster and, in larger amounts, around the entire cluster.

The larger fuzzy patches in the picture are closer galaxies and the smallest bright points are very distant galaxies. It is a 278-hour exposure (over 412 orbits) of a single piece of sky in the Fornax constellation.

Coma (about 5 times the Virgo distance) is the nearest rich, regular cluster and a useful standard of comparison. Even some ``small groups" contain of order 100 members when surveyed to faint levels, as seen in the map of the Fornax group from ...

the Heavenly Waters (9 constellations, including Delphinus, Columba, Equuleus, Vela, Puppis, etc.), the Bayer Group (11 constellations, including Hydrus, Dorado, Volans, Apus,etc.), the La Caille Family (13 constellations, including Norma, Fornax, ...

devised 7 new constellations late in the 17th century, including Lacerta (the Lizard), Leo Minor (the Small Lion) and Scutum (the Shield);
Finally, Nicolas Louis de Lacaille devised 14 southern hemisphern constellations in c.1750, including Fornax ...

See also: Constellation, Sky, Light, Star, Magnitude

Topic: Astronomy