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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 .
NGC 3261 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Vela.The galaxy lies about 110 million light years away from Earth based on redshift, which means, given its apparent dimensions, that NGC 3261 is approximately 130,000 light years across. [1]
This constellation's Bayer designations (Greek-letter star names) were given while it was still considered part of the constellation of Argo Navis. After Argo Navis was broken up into Carina, Vela, and Puppis, these Greek-letter designations were kept, so that Vela does not have a full complement of Greek-letter designations. For example, since ...
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NGC 3132 (also known as the Eight-Burst Nebula, [2] the Southern Ring Nebula, [2] or Caldwell 74) is a bright and extensively studied planetary nebula in the constellation Vela. Its distance from Earth is estimated at 613 pc or 2,000 light-years .
NGC 2659 is an open cluster in the constellation Vela.It was discovered by John Herschel on 3 February, 1835. It is of Trumpler class III3m. It is a young cluster, with age nearly 8 million years.
HD 79940 is a single [9] star in the southern constellation of Vela.It has the Bayer designation of k 1 Velorum; HD 79940 is the identifier from the Henry Draper Catalogue.This star has a yellow-white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye as a point light source with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.63. [2]
HD 75063 is a single [10] star in the southern constellation of Vela. It has the Bayer designation of a Velorum , while HD 75063 is the identifier from the Henry Draper Catalogue . This is a naked-eye star with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.87 [ 2 ] and has a white hue.