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Phoenix is a minor constellation in the southern sky. Named after the mythical phoenix , it was first depicted on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria . The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted the brighter stars and gave their Bayer designations in 1756.
Caffau's star was identified as the most metal-poor star yet when it was found in 2012 using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. However, in February 2014 the discovery of an even lower-metallicity star was announced, SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 located with the aid of SkyMapper astronomical survey data.
• Notes = Common name(s) or alternate name(s); comments; notable properties [for example: multiple star status, range of variability if it is a variable star, exoplanets, etc.] See also [ edit ]
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The Phoenix Cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243) is a massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix. It was initially detected in 2010 during a 2,500 square degree survey of the southern sky using the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect by the South Pole Telescope collaboration. [ 5 ]
The moment when the first stars in the universe lit up was detected by scientists this week in a revolutionary finding through a faint radio signal.
Also the sixth-nearest stellar system to the Solar System and the brightest star in the night sky. Altair: 16.7 [219] A7Vn [109] 2.01 × 1.57 [220] 1.86 ± 0.03 [220] 0.76 [54] 2.22 [221] 12th brightest star in the night sky. Vega: 25.04 ± 0.07: A0Va [109] 2.726 × 2.418 [222] 2.135 ± 0.074 [223] 0.026 [224] 0.582 [225] Fifth-brightest star ...
These were perhaps some of the thoughts of the roughly 50 observers in the Inland Northwest who reported their sighting of a fireball in the sky Monday night to the American Meteor Society. At ...