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(
Latin for ''
Furnace '') is a southern
Constellation which was first introduced by
Nicolas Louis De Lacaille under the name ''Fornax Chemica'' (Latin for ''
Chemical furnace''). The
Fornax Dwarf Galaxy lies in Fornax.
The
Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located within the constellation.
At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown "dwarf" galaxies in this constellation.
They also described Fornax as being "on Earth's doorstep".
Follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's
Very Large Telescope revealed that Ultra Compact Dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about 120 light years across.
"Tens of millions of stars are squashed into what is a tiny volume by galaxy standards," the observatory said in a statement.
The
Fornax Galaxy Cluster lies primarily in the constellation Fornax.
Fornax, in
Roman Mythology , was the goddess of bread and baking, although this has nothing to do with the constellation (''fornax'' is just the Roman word for ''furnace''), as the constellation was created in 1763.
:Stars with proper names:
- '' (α For) 3.80
:Stars with Bayer designations:
::
β For 4.45;
γ1 For 6.14;
γ2 For 5.39;
δ For 4.99;
ε For 5.88;
ζ For 5.69;
η1 For 6.51;
η2 For 5.92;
η3 For 5.48;
ι1 For 5.74;
ι2 For 5.84;
κ For 5.19;
λ1 For 5.91;
λ2 For 5.78;
μ For 5.27;
ν For 4.68;
π For 5.34;
ρ For 5.52;
σ For 5.91;
τ For 6.01;
χ1 For 6.39;
χ2 For 5.71;
χ3 For 6.49;
φ For 5.13;
ψ For 5.93;
ω For 4.96
