galaxy in the early universe, is located in the constellation Sextans (artist concept) Sextans B is a fairly bright dwarf irregular galaxy at magnitude 6...
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galaxies, which includes the Milky Way galaxy, and to which Sextans A may or may not belong. Sextans A has a peculiar square shape. Massive short-lived stars...
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reduced to about 50 grams, resulting in the sextans weighing about 8 grams. The most common design for the sextans was the bust of Mercury and two pellets...
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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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The membership of 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...
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Sextans B (also known as UGC 5373 and DDO 70) is an irregular galaxy that may be part of the Local Group, or lie just beyond it. Sextans B is 4.44 million...
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Minor, Cetus, Hydra, Leo, Monoceros, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pisces, Serpens, Sextans, Taurus, and Virgo) lie in some piece on the southern hemisphere. Eridanus...
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or sex, a knife used by ancient Germanic peoples Sex, abbreviation of Sextans, a constellation Sodium ethyl xanthate, a chemical compound Sex-, the Latin...
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twilight on 11 September 2024, when it was located in the constellation of Sextans, at a magnitude of 5.5. The comet was spotted with naked eye and photographed...
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According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Sextans is located within the southern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized...
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constellation of Sextans". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 244: 16–19. Bibcode:1990MNRAS.244P..16I. Hartmut Frommert. "Sextans Dwarf". SEDS...
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Gynacantha sextans is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast...
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NGC 3115 (redirect from Spindle Galaxy in Sextans)
or Caldwell 53) is a field lenticular (S0) galaxy in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on February 22, 1787. At...
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obsolete Turdus Solitarius, the thrush) Corvus Crater Sextans Uraniae (original name of Sextans) Hydra Felis (obsolete, represented a cat) Lupus Centaurus...
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NGC 3110 (category Sextans)
NGC 3122 and NGC 3518, is an active spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextans. It contains extensive Hubble-type Sb star-forming regions, and is located...
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commerce was depicted on two early bronze coins of the Roman Republic, the sextans and the semuncia. When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes...
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NGC 3341 (category Sextans)
NGC 3341 is a peculiar galaxy located in the constellation of Sextans. It is located 415 million light years away from Earth and has a diameter of 170...
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bes (2⁄3), semis (1⁄2), quincunx (5⁄12), triens (1⁄3), quadrans (1⁄4), sextans (1⁄6), uncia (1⁄12, also a common weight unit), and semuncia (1⁄24), as...
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This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Sextans, sorted by decreasing brightness. List of stars by constellation ESA (1997). "The Hipparcos...
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Taurus Eridanus Orion (near Orion's belt) Monoceros Canis Minor Hydra Sextans Leo Virgo (contains the first point of Libra) Serpens (caput) Ophiuchus...
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symbols U+10190–U+10195 are likewise also symbols for weights: U+10190 (𐆐): Sextans U+10191 (𐆑): Uncia U+10192 (𐆒): Semuncia U+10193 (𐆓): Sextula U+10194...
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a quincunx, from the name of the Roman fraction/coin. The Latin words sextans and quadrans are the source of the English words sextant and quadrant....
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been expected to occur on 18 October 2017 coming from the constellation Sextans, but no activity was detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar. On 27...
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Malin 2 Phoenix Dwarf Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (SagDIG) Sextans A Sextans B Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte galaxy (WLM) UGC 477 Ultra diffuse galaxy...
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disturbed by the smaller lenticular galaxy IC 4970. Cosmos Redshift 7 Sextans The name of this galaxy is based on a Redshift (z) measurement of nearly...
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field of the Milky Way or other galaxy that they orbit. For example, the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy has a velocity dispersion of 7.9±1.3 km/s, which...
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Andromeda. Modern astronomers have noted that planets pass through Crater, Sextans, Cetus, Pegasus, Corvus, Hydra, and Scutum, with Venus very rarely passing...
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Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, and Leo I Dwarf. The smallest dwarf galaxies of the...
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Vulpecula PSR J0348+0432 PSR J0737−3039 PSR J0740+6620 PSR J0952–0607 Sextans PSR J1311–3430 Centaurus PSR J1614−2230 PSR J1719−1438 Serpens PSR J1719−1438...
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Bordering constellations Ursa Major Leo Minor Lynx (corner) Cancer Hydra Sextans Crater Virgo Coma Berenices Visible at latitudes between +90° and −65°...
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