Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Antlia

AntliaANTLIA the Air Pump is an extremely dim constellation, with the brightest star being α Antliae, which has a dim magnitude of only 4.30. Remember, the higher the number, the dimmer the star looks. Now you know more about Antlia!

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Blog Background

The background has three Hubble Space Telescope images:

— LH 95 is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Dorado constellation.

— Ant Nebula (also called Menzel 3) is an aptly-named planetary nebula located in the constellation Norma.

— Egg Nebula (also called CL 2688) is a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus.