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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 .
HR 3562 (HD 76566) is a visual binary consisting of a bluish-white hued variable star and a Sun-like secondary star in the southern constellation of Vela. It has the variable-star designation IY Velorum (abbreviated to IY Vel). With an apparent magnitude of 6.26, the brighter primary is near the limit for naked eye visibility.
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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.
HD 75289 is a faint double star in the southern constellation of Vela.The primary component has a yellow hue and an apparent visual magnitude of 6.35. [2] Under exceptionally good circumstances it might be visible to the unaided eye; however, usually binoculars are needed.
Mu Velorum (μ Vel, μ Velorum) is a binary star system in the southern constellation Vela.The two stars orbit each other with a semi-major axis of 1.437 arcseconds and a period of 116.24 years. [11]