Scutum
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Scutum is a constellation in the southern hemisphere. It is the fifth smallest constellation in the sky. Its name means "shield" in Latin.
Scutum
: For the Roman shield, see scutum (shield); : For the zootomical term, see scute.
Scutum
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Scutum
Abbreviation: Sct
Genitive: Scuti
Translation: The Shield
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Scutum, the shield:
A modern constellation created by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690.
Scutum
Abbreviation: Sct English name: Shield Coordinates see Stellar data
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Scutum as shown by Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas published in 1690. Here, the name is abbreviated to Scutum Sobiescian.
That said, Scutum is small, 84th in size out of the 88 modern constellation. It contains no bright stars, and seems to have been carved out of adjoining Aquila and Serpens simply embrace a fine piece of the Milky Way.
SCUTUM, SAGITTARIUS, AND SCORPIUS
This wide-angle view of the Milky Way spans nearly 50 degrees from southern Aquila and Scutum at the upper left through Sagittarius (notable by the upside-down "Little Milk Dipper") and Scorpius with its obvious ...
Scutum is the Latin word for "shield", although it has in modern times come to be specifically associated with the rectangular, semi-cylinder body shield carried by Roman legion....
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Scutum (Shield)
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Origin of the constellation: 1690, Hevelius ...
Scutum
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Sct, Scut (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Scutum. See constellation. Scul (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Sculptor. See constellation.
Located in the constellation Scutum, M26 is a small galactic cluster of about 90 stars. It can be found only 3 1/2 degrees from its cousin, M11, but is not nearly as impressive.
Former name of the southern constellation Scutum. [H76]
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which is bright as it passes through the Northern Cross, fades near Ophiuchus, or the Serpent Bearer, because of dense dust clouds, and appears again in Scorpio; and the eastern stream, which grows brighter as it passes southward through Scutum and ...
Antares (Alpha Scorpii)
M80 cluster
Sculptor (Sculptoris) Scutum (Scuti) Serpens (Serpentis) Sextans (Sextantis) Taurus (Tauri)
Taurean system
Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri)
Gamma Tauri
T Tauri
Crab Nebula
Murasaki 312 ...
This followed the reported detection of a planet of mass (where is the mass of the Earth) at a radius of around PSR 1829-10 in the constellation Scutum by an independent group, ...
Some open clusters (such as M11 in Scutum, or the double cluster in Perseus) have about 1,000 stars in them.
Pyxis(the compass), Reticulum(reticle), Sagitta(arrow), Sagittarius(archer), Scorpius(scorpion), Sculptor, Scutum(shield), Serpens(serpent), Sextans(sextant), Taurus the Bull, Telescopium(telescope), ...
Some astronomers divide the Centaurus Arm into the Scutum arm and the Crux arm, and some lump Carina arm into the Sagittarius arm (leaving its name out altogether).
The Chandra observation, conducted in February 2000, lasted 28 hours. The team observed what was known to be a "blank" region of the galactic plane in the constellation Scutum where an earlier Japanese X-ray satellite called ASCA found no individual ...
contain a mixture of mythological characters (e.g. Perseus, Andromeda, Orion), animals (e.g. Taurus, Scorpius, Canis Major), scientific apparatus (e.g. Microscopium, Sextans and Caelum the chisel) and everyday objects (e.g. Crater the cup and Scutum ...
Observations presented in 2008 by Robert Benjamin of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater suggest that the Milky Way possesses only two major stellar arms: the Perseus arm and the Scutum-Centaurus arm. The rest of the arms are minor or adjunct arms.
It was John Flamsteed who -- in his own star catalogue published posthumously in 1725 -- popularised Hevelius' new constellations: Canes Venatici, Lacerta, Leo Minor, Lynx, Scutum, Sextans, and Vulpecula.
If you are fortunate enough to view a dark sky outside of the glare of the city lights, you will see this milky band running through the constellations Cassiopeia, Perseus, Taurus, Monoceros, Vela, Crux, Norma, Sagittarius, Scutum, Aguila, Cygnus, ...
Given that the zodiac extends eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, an additional twelve constellations reside in part within the zodiac's belt of stars: Auriga, Canis Minor, Cetus, Corvus, Crater, Hydra, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Scutum, ...
| Orion | Pavo | Pegasus | Perseus | Phoenix | Pictor | Pisces | Piscis Austrinus | Puppis | Pyxis | Reticulum | Sagitta | Sagittarius | Scorpius | Sculptor | Scutum ...
 See also: Constellation, Star, Sagittarius, Sky, Sagitta
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