VELA, PUPPIS (EAST), AND NORTHERN CARINA
The three parts of Argo are seen in context, Vela (the Sails) to the lower left, Puppis (the Stern) at center and right, upper Carina (the Keel) at bottom. Naos (Zeta Puppis) is at center.
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Vela is a constellation in the southern hemisphere. Its name is Latin for "sails.
Vela
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23 January
As mentioned in regard to "Carina", Jason and his Argonauts sailed off in the Argo Navis to capture the Golden Fleece.
Vela
Abbreviation: Vel
Genitive: Velorum
Translation: The Sail
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Vela, the sail:
Vela is one part of the constellation formerly known as Argo Navis (along with Carina and Puppis). Argo Navis was the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts as they sought to recover the Golden Fleece.
Vela (the Sail) is a rather large constellation on the southern hemisphere, and together with Carina (the Keel), Puppis (the Stern), and Pyxis (the Compass), it forms the compound constellation Argo Navis.
Light Curve for the Binary System called Vela X-1
The solid black line drawn on the light curve above seems to be the best fit to the data.
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Vela
Abbreviation: Vel English name: Sails Coordinates see Stellar data
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Vela (the sails) is best known for the supernova remnant seen on large telescope pictures (below) and the Gum nebula, visible as faint red nebulosity towards the right (west) of the constellation.
Because of the dismantling of Argo Navis, Vela possesses no stars labelled Alpha or Beta, since these stars were retained in Carina. Its brightest star is Gamma Velorum, a second-magnitude double star.
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Vela and the discovery of GRBs
Cosmic gamma-ray bursts were discovered in the late 1960s by the US Vela nuclear test detection satellites. The Velas were built to detect the gamma-radiation pulses emitted by nuclear weapons tests in space.
Vela X
A compact radio source about 400-500 pc distant associated with the Vela supernova remnant. It has a nonthermal radio spectrum and is about 20 percent polarized.
Vela 5B
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Vela (Sails, formerly Argo Navis)
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Origin of the constellation: Ancient Greece (Ptolemaeus) - as Argo Navis! In 1752, Lacaille separated the huge ship into three smaller constellations, Vela being one of them.
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Vela Satellite
Launched by the U.S. in the 1960s to monitor the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The satellite's mission was to detect the gamma rays produced during nuclear blasts.
The Vela Supernova Remnant - expanding clouds of gas from a supernova which occurred 10,000 years ago.
Antlia, Vela and Carina in the west. looking from north to south.
The southern border finds Musca and Crux.
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In 1967 a Vela military satellite designed to detect nuclear explosions discovered the first gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
This is the Vela Supernova Remnant. This nebula is the remnant of a supernova that exploded about 10,000 years ago.
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The Crab and Vela pulsars are losing rotational energy so precipitously that they also emit radiation of shorter wavelength. The Crab Pulsar appears in optical photographs as a moderately bright (magnitude 16) star in the centre of the Crab Nebula.
Vel, Velr International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Vela. See constellation. Vela (abbr Vel, Velr) See constellation. velocimeter A continuous-wave reflection Doppler system used to measure the radial velocity of an object.
This happened when the Vela satellites were orbited; one might suspect that there was a comparable Soviet program, but no public information seems to have been forthcoming.
Detectors on board the Vela satellite series, designed to detect flashes of gamma-rays from nuclear bomb blasts, began to record bursts of gamma-rays -- not from the vicinity of the Earth, but from deep space! ...
The original supernova left a pulsar in the core of the Vela nebula. Based upon the current rate at which the pulsar's spin is slowing, astronomers estimate that the supernova may have occurred about 11,000 years ago.
A large constellation of the Southern Hemisphere, Vela forms the Sails of the even larger, ancient constellation of Argo Navis, the ship of the Argonauts, which also included Vela's sibling constellations of Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis.
29 (a) A camera on board the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite captured this image of the Vela supernova remnant, the result of a massive star blowing itself virtually to smithereens.
Fernandez de Enciso founded a village near the Cabo de la Vela with the name Nuestra Se?ora Santa Mar?a de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, the first settlement in the Guajira Peninsula....
The Vela supernova (in the constellation Vela; figure below) occurred long before the Crab Nebula so it is much more spread out. Different parts of the expanding gas have run into regions of the interstellar medium of different densities.
One of the largest of these constellations, Argo Navis, was split into 4 smaller constellations Carina (the Keel), Puppis (the Stern), Vela (the Sails) and Pyxis (the Ship's Compass) by Lacaille in the 1750s.
military Vela satellites launched in 1963 to monitor Soviet compliance with the nuclear test ban treaty. By 1967, it was realized that the bursts, which had energy densities from to erg cm-2, originated from space.
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A giant H II region 30°-40° in diameter in which the Vela pulsar and the Vela X supernova remnant are embedded. It appears to be a fossil Strömgren sphere produced by an outburst of ionizing radiation that accompanied the Vela X supernova remnant.
The famous Vela, Crab, and Geminga pulsars (right) are the brightest ones Fermi sees. The pulsars Taz, Eel, and Rabbit have taken the nicknames of nebulae they are now known to power.
Originally called Antlia Pneumatica and thought to represent the pump invented by English physicist Robert Boyle, it lies slightly north of the constellation Vela. Its brightest star, Alpha Ant, is a giant K star (visual magnitude 4.
Another example is the X-ray object Vela X-1, where photodigital techniques reveal the presence of a typical supersonic bow shock hyperbola.
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Sostenga un molinete sobre una vela o un mechero. La llama caliente producirá corrientes convectivas en el aire, induciendo el giro del molinete.
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Finding Antlia: Beginning at the north, Antlia is surrounded by the sea snake Hydra, the compass Pyxis, the sails (Vela) of the mythological ship Argo and finally the centaur Centaurus.
In 1750s it was divided by Lacaille into Puppis (theStern), Pyxis (the Compass), Vela (the Sails) and Carina (the Keel).
Heanenly Waters is a of 9 that includes Delphinus (the Dolphin), (the Dove), Equuleus (the Little Horse), Carina (the Keel), Puppis (the Stern), Eridanus (the river), Pisces Austrinus (the Southern Fish), Vela (the Sails), ...
Heanenly Waters is a family of 9 constellations that includes Delphinus (the Dolphin), Columba (the Dove), Equuleus (the Little Horse), Carina (the Keel), Puppis (the Stern), Eridanus (the river), Pisces Austrinus (the Southern Fish), Vela ...
Learn where to find ARGO NAVIS, the Argo Ship, CARINA, the Keel, VELA, the Sails, PUPPIS, the Deck, MALUS, the Mast, PYXIS, the Compass, ANTLIA, the Pump, PICTOR, the Painter, CRUX AUSTRALIS, the Southern Cross, CENTAURUS, the Centaur, ...
Gamma ray pulsars are quite rare, and most are young neutron stars with strong magnetic fields. A few of these are also visible as radio and optical pulsars. At gamma ray wavelengths near 100 MeV, the Vela pulsar is the strongest point source in ...
An ASM measures the intensity of many sources across the sky and looks for new sources. Many high-energy satellites have carried ASM detectors, including the ASM on Vela 5B, Ariel V, and the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.
Perhaps the most spectacular discovery in gamma-ray astronomy came in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Detectors on board the Vela satellite series, originally military satellites, began to record bursts of these rays, not from Earth, ...
About 200 of these stars are known in the Milky Way; most of these are very far from us. The W-R star closest to us is the double star gamma Velorum (in the constellation Vela). Wolf-Rayet stars were discovered in 1867 by C. J. Wolf and G.
Puppis actually represents a ship's stern, and is a fragment of the ancient constellation Argo Navis, the ship. The other two modern constellations that originated from Argo Navis are Carina, the keel, and Vela, the sail.
This gives us another means of identifying the age of a neutron star. Generally rapidly rotating pulsars are young. The Crab pulsar and the Vela pulsar have periods less than 0.1 second.
gamma ray bursts (NASA Thesaurus) Short (about 0.1 - 4 sec.) intense low-energy (about 0.1 - 1.2 MeV) bursts first recorded by the Vela satellite system in 1967.
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