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Beta Carinae is the second-brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina. It has the official name Miaplacidus; [14] Beta Carinae is the star's Bayer designation, which is Latinised from β Carinae and abbreviated Beta Car or β Car. With apparent magnitude of 1.69, [3] it is one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
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HD 65750, also known as V341 Carinae is a bright red giant star in the constellation Carina. It is surrounded by a prominent reflection nebula , [ 10 ] [ 9 ] known as IC 2220 , nicknamed the Toby Jug Nebula.
Carina (/ k ə ˈ r aɪ n ə, k ə ˈ r iː n ə / kə-RY-nə, - REE-) is a constellation in the southern sky.Its name is Latin for the keel of a ship, and it was the southern foundation of the larger constellation of Argo Navis (the ship Argo) until it was divided into three pieces, the other two being Puppis (the poop deck), and Vela (the sails of the ship).
HD 93205, or V560 Carinae, is a binary stellar system, in the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) in the constellation Carina. It consists of two massive O-stars that revolve around each other in 6 days . The more massive member of the pair is an O3.5 main sequence star.
It lies near the Carina Nebula and at a comparable distance. A 5th magnitude star, it is visible to the naked eye under good observing conditions. A light curve for V371 Carinae, plotted from Hipparcos data [9] In 1977, Christiaan Sterken announced his discovery that HD 96919 is a variable star. [10] It was given its variable star designation ...
HD 77370 is a single [7] star in the constellation Carina.It has the Bayer designation b 2 Carinae; HD 77370 is the identifier from the Henry Draper catalogue.This object has a yellow-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.17. [2]
The Cosmic Cliffs at the edge of NGC 3324, one of the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The Carina Nebula [7] or Eta Carinae Nebula [8] (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula [9]) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.