Scutum

Scutum : For the Roman shield, see scutum (shield); : For the zootomical term, see scute.

Scutum, the shield: A modern constellation created by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690.

Scutum Abbreviation: Sct Genitive: Scuti Translation: The Shield Sky Chart Peoria Astronomical Society Scutum Page Interactive star chart (Java applet) ...

Scutum Map created in Guide 7.0 with the figure outline based on Johannes Hevelius' Uranographia (1690). Click on the object's name to access its image or click on the name of adjacent constellation to see its map.

Scutum as shown by Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas published in 1690. Here, the name is abbreviated to Scutum Sobiescian.

Scutum Abbreviation: Sct English name: Shield Coordinates see Stellar data Particulars: ...

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 ...

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Scutum (shield) 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.... ).

Sct, Scut International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Scutum. See constellation. Scul International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Sculptor. See constellation. Sculptor (abbr Scl, Scul) See constellation.

Located in the constellation Scutum, M11 has been described as one of the richest and most compact open clusters. This cluster lies 6,000 light years from Earth and has a diameter of about 21 light years.

Unlike most of the constellations, many of which we can trace their origins to the dawn of civilization, Scutum the Shield was created relatively recently by famous Polish astronomer Johan Hevelius.

Former name of the southern constellation Scutum. Sodium A soft reactive metal. It has the electronic configuration of a neon structure plus an additional outer 3s electron.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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).

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, ...

low-mass companions -- six planets and two brown dwarfs -- discovered by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory. The planet, which is about 80 percent as massive as Saturn, orbits a star 140 light-years away in the constellation Scutum, ...

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 ...

Austrinus Southern Fish Formalhaut Psc Pisces Fish El Rischa Pup Puppis Stern Pyx Pyxis Mariner's Compass Ret Reticulum Net Sge Sagitta Arrow Sgr Sagittarius Archer Rubkat Sco Scorpius Scorpion Antares Scl Sculptor Sculptor's Apparatus Sct Scutum ...

See also: Constellation, Star, Sky, Sagittarius, Sagitta