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Scutum : For the Roman shield, see scutum (shield); : For the zootomical term, see scute.
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Scutum, the shield: A modern constellation created by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690.
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ScutumAbbreviation: Sct Genitive: Scuti Translation: The Shield Sky Chart Peoria Astronomical Society Scutum Page Interactive star chart (Java applet) ...
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ScutumMap 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.
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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.
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ScutumAbbreviation: Sct English name: Shield Coordinates see Stellar data Particulars: ...
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Scutum About this Java applet / Instructions Constellations is written using Java. You must have a Java enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator to be able to see this applet. Back to Constellations Home Page ...
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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.... ).
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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).
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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.
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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, ...
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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, ...
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See also: Constellation, Star, Sky, Sagittarius, Sagitta
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