It was introduced by French astronomer, Nicolas Louis de Lacaille.
Unlike a lot of the more mythical Greek names, Antlia just means 'Air Pump'. Named after the 17th century vacuum pump, which was used to study the physics of gases.
It's usually only visible from places like Paris, Vancouver and Kiev.
It is the 62nd largest constellation.
The star Antliae (Alpha Antliae) is located approximately 366 light-years away from earth with an apparent magnitude of about 4.22.
Antlia is a Southern hemisphere constellation and most visible December - July, and the brightest star in the constellation is α Antliae.
The constellation Antlia, showing the star Antliae on the left Image credit is Star Registration
#DailyConstellations
Hello, today's constellation is
Antlia
I feel like I've been seeing a man outside my apartment a lot recently.
He's blond with a weird neck tattoo??
He looks kind of scary if I'm honest but he caught me looking and now I feel like I need to go into witness protection
#HEU
I would die for Phil
Zoom in on the phantom galaxy image from the original post. A silhouette of a funky little guy is in view, highlighted by a white square outline
The original image of the phantom galaxy, but with the outline of a white box circling the silhouette of a funky little guy
I spent awhile staring at this image today and I noticed a little guy hanging out on one of the right spirals. I'm gonna call them Phil!
This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 4826, otherwise known as M64— a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). This galaxy is often referred to as the “Black Eye” or “Evil Eye” Galaxy because of the dark band of dust that sweeps across one side of its bright nucleus. M64 is known by astronomers for its strange internal motion. NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); Acknowledgment: S. Smartt (Institute of Astronomy) and D. Richstone (U. Michigan)
This dusty galaxy is also known as the Black Eye Galaxy.|NASA|
Absolutely Insane details of the moon by astrophotographer Darya Kawa Mirza.
[🔭 daryavaseum] 💫👏💫👏💫👏💫👏
Last night’s ~98% Waxing Moon - two versions from. 2 scopes, one B&W and the second in colour to bring out the blue Titanium-rich and brown Iron-rich regions.
Good point, thank you! I'll do that in ALT text in future!
The most notable are the top star which is Alamak, then it goes to Mirrach in the middle, and Sirrah at the bottom.
The one on the far right is Andromedae.
It is one of the 48 classical constellations and was observed by Greek-Roman astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy.
It was named after Princess Andromeda in Greek mythology, who was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to please Poseidon (Chained Lady), but she was rescued by Perseus.
Near to Andromeda is the Andromeda Nebula AKA Messier 31 (M31).
The galaxy contains up to 300 billion stars and is estimated to collide with the Milky Way in approximately 10 billion years.
M31 is also close to the star μ Andromedae.
Andromeda is located in the Northern night sky and can be visible all year round, and is most visible from September to February.
It's most notable stars are Alamak, Mirach and Sirrach.
Sirrach is the brightest star in Andromeda, with a magnitude of approx. 2.06.
The star constellation Andromeda
I am going to post a different constellation daily, from A-Z, so that we can all learn together
We are starting with Andromeda, also known as The Chained Lady
My name is Adam, I am a satellite microchip engineer at an observatory in California.
I believe that we can incorporate our knowledge of the stars to better understand the planet we live on.
I made this account so that I can share some of my interests.
Please be kind.
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