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Vela is a constellation in the southern sky, which contains the Vela Supercluster. Its name is Latin for the sails of a ship, and it was originally part of a larger constellation, the ship Argo Navis , which was later divided into three parts, the others being Carina and Puppis .
Vela International Marine, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco; Vela, a playable character in the video game Jet Force Gemini; Vela, a religious, cultural celebration from the city of Tehuantepec, Mexico; Vela, an alternative appellation for Mokosh, the consort of the Slavic god of thunder; Vela, a genus of land crabs in the family Gecarcinucidae
Vela Uniform was the second half of Project Vela that began its development soon after the PTB Treaty was put into effect. Vela Uniform was created with the intention of monitoring seismic activity in order to determine the magnitude and location of any covert nuclear weapons tests beneath the surface of the earth.
Gamma Velorum is a quadruple star system in the constellation Vela.This name is the Bayer designation for the star, which is Latinised from γ Velorum and abbreviated γ Vel.At a combined magnitude of +1.72, it is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and contains by far the closest and brightest Wolf–Rayet star.
Vélez is a surname of Spanish origin. Although it has been suggested [2] that it could be derived from Basque, it is, in fact, a patronym from the medieval name Vela, which itself is derived from Vigila (Wigila), a Germanic name used by the Visigoths. [3]
Club La Vela was a nightclub owned by Patrick and Thorsten Pfeffer located in Panama City Beach, Florida. It was once billed as the largest nightclub in the United States . The club gained most of its fame and infamy in the 1990s during the weeks of spring break when thousands of college students converge on the club.
Lambda Velorum (λ Velorum, abbreviated Lambda Vel, λ Vel), officially named Suhail / ˈ s uː h eɪ l /, [11] is a star in the southern constellation of Vela.With a mean apparent visual magnitude of 2.21, [2] this is the third-brightest star in the constellation and one of the brighter stars in the sky.
The 1755 catalogue of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided it into the three modern constellations that occupy much of the same area: Carina (the keel), Puppis (the poop deck or stern), and Vela (the sails). Argo derived from the ship Argo in Greek mythology, sailed by Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece. [1]