VELA CONSTELLATION SOUTHERN NAME LATIN THE SAIL THE SHIP ARGO NAVIS DIVIDED CARINA PUPPIS APPARENT MAGNITUDE STAR BLUE MULTIPLE STAR GAMMA VELORUM COMPONENT IN THE SKY DELTA KAPPA VELORUM EPSILON IOTA CARINAE ASTERISM FALSE CROSS ACTUALLY TRIPLE QUINTUPLE STAR SYSTEM THE CLASSICAL CONSTELLATIONS THE CENTURY ASTRONOMER PTOLEMY ARGO JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS QUEST THE GOLDEN FLEECE GREEK MYTHOLOGY GERMAN JOHANN BAYER URANOMETRIA GAVE THE STARS BAYER DESIGNATION ALPHA CHART VISIBLE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE FRENCH ASTRONOMER NICOLAS LOUIS DE LACAILLE FORMING LACAILLE KEPT ARGOS BETA GAMMA SO ON BORDERED ANTLIA PYXIS TO THE NORTH THE SOUTH CENTAURUS COVERING SQUARE DEGREES THE MODERN ABBREVIATION THE INTERNATIONAL UNION CONSTELLATION BOUNDARIES DELPORTE DEFINED POLYGON EQUATORIAL COORDINATE SYSTEM THE RIGHT ASCENSION COORDINATES BORDERS LIE DECLINATION COMPLEX MULTIPLE STAR SYSTEM BRIGHTER SPECTROSCOPIC BINARY MADE UP BLUE STARS ORBITING EACH OTHER DAYS ASTRONOMICAL UNITS SPECTRAL TYPE TIMES MASSIVE DIAMETER SURFACE TEMPERATURE RARE EXAMPLE LUMINOUS RADIATES ENERGY ULTRAVIOLET PAIRS ARCSECONDS SEPARABLE PARALLAX MEASUREMENTS GIVE DISTANCE LIGHT YEARS MEANING C MAGNITUDE LYING THE NEXT DELTA VELORUM ECLIPSING BINARIES IOTA EPSILON CARINAE SOMETIMES MISTAKEN THE SOUTHERN CROSS CAUSING ERRORS ASTRONAVIGATION WHITE STAR THE SOLAR SYSTEM ECLIPSING BINARY WHITE STARS ORBIT DROP IN DIMMER FRONT DELTA B YELLOW SIMILAR DIMENSIONS RANGES AWAY TAKING COMPLETE RED DWARFS MULTIPLE SYSTEM KAPPA APPEARS IN FACT PERIOD NATURE THE COMPANION LAMBDA VELORUM THE THIRD LIES LUMINOSITY THE MASS VELORUM CEPHEID VARIABLE LESS THAN DEGREE THE NORTHEAST CLOSE CEPHEID RANGING DELTA SCUTI VARIABLE AGED DUSTY RV TAURI VARIABLE NEARLY OMICRON VELORUM SUBGIANT SLOWLY PULSATING B STAR OMICRON VELORUM CLUSTER ALSO KNOWN AS OPEN CLUSTER SEVEN STAR SYSTEMS PLANETS SUNLIKE STAR HOT JUPITER PLANETARY COMPANION TAKES REVOLVE ORBITAL DISTANCE LIGHT YEARS AWAY PLANET ORBITS TWO PLANETS DOUBLE THE MASS OF JUPITER ORANGE DWARF EARTH ORBITING ORBITED PERIODS MASSES OF EARTH THE DISCOVERY OF BINARY BROWN DWARF SYSTEM ANNOUNCED OBJECT INTEREST PLANETARY NEBULA NICKNAMED NEBULA SOUTHERN RING NEBULA ACCOMPANYING ON THE BORDER THE GUM FAINT EMISSION NEBULA BELIEVED THE REMAINS SMALLER YOUNGER VELA SUPERNOVA REMNANT SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION EARTH YEARS AGO THE REMNANT VELA PULSAR PULSAR IDENTIFIED NEARBY PENCIL NEBULA YOUNG STAR MATERIAL TREMENDOUS SPEED KILOMETRES PER HOUR AS IT HITS OVERALL TRUMPLER CLASS SHAPLEY CLASS D CONFORMATION CLASS LOOSE DETACHED THE STAR SOMEWHAT CONCENTRATED STARS RANGE BRIGHTNESS SOUTH GLOBULAR DISCOVERED JAMES DUNLOP STELLAR POPULATION EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE SHOWS INCREASE GREATER COOLER CLOSER AS OF MESSIER INHOMOGENEOUS IAN RIDPATH WIL TIRION STARS AND PLANETS LONDON ISBN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN STAR NAMES LORE NEW YORK