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    Antlia II (Ant II) is a low-surface-brightness dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way at a galactic latitude of 11.2°. It spans 1.26° in the sky just...
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    Antlia (/ˈæntliə/; from Ancient Greek ἀντλία) is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name means "pump" in Latin and Greek; it represents...
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    NGC 3109, with its companions Sextans A and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy as well as Sextans B, Leo P, Antlia B and possibly Leo A, is uncertain due to extreme...
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    The Antlia Cluster (or Abell S0636) is a cluster of galaxies located in the Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster. The Antlia Cluster is the third-nearest to the...
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    Ia supernova; much lower such abundance in the lower remnant belies a Type II supernova. A 16 ms X-ray pulsar is associated with SNR 0538-69.1. SNR 0540-697...
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    JP; Pounds KA (Dec 1981). "The Ariel V /3 A/ catalogue of X-ray sources. II - Sources at high galactic latitude /absolute value of B greater than 10 deg/"...
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    The Antlia Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal/irregular galaxy. It lies about 1.3 Mpc (4.3 million light-years) from Earth in the constellation Antlia. It is...
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    The Antlia-Sextans Group is a small Galaxy group in the constellations Hydra, Sextans, Antlia and Leo. It is, on average, approximately 4.3 million light-years...
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  • This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Antlia, sorted by decreasing brightness. |} List of stars by constellation ESA (1997). "The Hipparcos...
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  • dwarf galaxies of similar mass Andromeda XIX is extremely diffuse, like Antlia II. Surveillance was performed during use of the MegaPrime/MegaCam 1 deg2...
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    is believed to be tidally interacting with the dwarf elliptical galaxy Antlia Dwarf. It was discovered by John Herschel on March 24, 1835 while he was...
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    NGC 3125 (category Antlia)
    NGC 3125 is a large starburst galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is located approximately 50 million light-years away from Earth. Starburst galaxies...
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    Virgo Cluster, Virgo II (southern extension), Leo II, Virgo III, Crater (NGC 3672), Leo I, Leo Minor (NGC 2841), Draco (NGC 5907), Antlia (NGC 2997), and NGC...
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    IC 2531 (category Antlia)
    IC 2531 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Antlia. It is located 130 million light years from Earth. It was discovered in February...
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    Puppis has Zeta as its brightest star, and so on. Vela is bordered by Antlia and Pyxis to the north, Puppis to the northwest, Carina to the south and...
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  • 5 + 1 {\displaystyle d_{pc}=10^{{\frac {m-M}{5}}+1}} Galaxies of small Antlia-Sextans Group, which is considered as part of Local Group, but membership...
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  • Crater 2 Dwarf (redirect from Crater II)
    matter hypothesis. This prediction was later confirmed by observations. Antlia 2 Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Local Group Torrealba, G.; Koposov...
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    Fouque et al. grouped the Cetus-Aries Cloud, also known as cloud 52 and the Antlia Cloud (Cloud 54) in the book The Nearby Galaxies Atlas along with the Southern...
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    honouring the ancestors of the emperor, along with stars from neighbouring Antlia. The French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille first described the constellation...
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    Alpha Antliae (category Antlia)
    (Alpha Ant, α Antliae, α Ant) is the brightest star in the constellation of Antlia but it has not been given a proper name. It is approximately 320 light-years...
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    X-ray Timing Explorer Hypercompact stellar system Constellation Andromeda Antlia Apus Aquarius Aquila Ara Aries Auriga Boötes Caelum Camelopardalis Cancer...
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  • Pacific Leaflets, 9 (436): 289, Bibcode:1965ASPL....9..289L. Seligman, Courtney, "Index Catalog (IC) I / II Objects", Celestial Atlas, retrieved 2024-08-26....
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    NGC 3087 (category Antlia)
    NGC 3087 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Antlia. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 2987 ± 30 km/s, which...
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    light years away, and may not be part of it, instead being part of the Antlia-Sextans Group, a small grouping of galaxies adjacent to the Local Group...
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    World War II. Octans (Chinese astronomy) The exception is Mensa, named for the Table Mountain. The other thirteen (alongside Horologium) are Antlia, Caelum...
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    Bologna. Lacaille has the honor of naming 14 different constellations: Antlia Caelum Circinus Fornax Horologium Mensa Microscopium Norma Octans Pictor...
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    constellation named Robur Carolinum (Charles' Oak) in honor of King Charles II, his patron, was unsuccessful. In Vedic period astronomy, which drew its zodiac...
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    U Antliae (category Antlia)
    U Antliae (U Ant) is a variable star in the constellation Antlia. It is a carbon star surrounded by two thin shells of dust. U Antliae is an extremely...
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  • DENIS J1048−3956 (category Antlia)
    2 light-years (4.0 parsecs) from Earth in the southern constellation of Antlia, among the stars closest to Earth. This star is very dim with an apparent...
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    HR 4049 (category Antlia)
    binary post-asymptotic-giant-branch (post-AGB) star in the constellation Antlia. A very metal-poor star, it is surrounded by a thick unique circumbinary...
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