Can anyone tell me some interesting facts about the constellation puppis? I've tried to google interesting facts about puppis but I didn't find any facts about it.. ThanksInteresting facts about the constellation puppis?It has Naos or Zeta Puppis, a runaway supergiant believed to have been created from the merger of two other massive stars and a hypernova event.
Clear skies!Interesting facts about the constellation puppis?Puppis has 6 stars with known or candidate exoplanets:
- HD 70642
- HD 69830
- NGC 2423-3
- HD 60532
- HD 48265
- HD 50499
3 Messier objects (all open clusters): M46, M47, M93
Plus open cluster NGC 2451.Interesting facts about the constellation puppis?Puppis is in a very rich part of the Milky Way, and contins many open star clusters. Its name is Latin for the poop deck 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 Vela; Puppis is the largest of the three.
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