Echoes from a variable star
Jan 09, 2019
2 minutes
by S. N. Johnson-Roehr
On these summer nights, Puppis wheels high above the southern horizon. Divorced from the larger constellation Argo Navis by the pen of Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille during his voyage of 1750–1754, Puppis represents the ship’s stern, floating aft of Canis Major. The constellation holds some intriguing stellar sights, one of them being the.
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