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Puppis

noun
1.
A constellation in the southern hemisphere between Vela and Canis Major that shaped like the stern of a boat.





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... reserve. Until recently, it was supposed to consist of a single harmonic series, although, by analogy, three should co-exist. In 1896, accordingly, a second, bound to the first by unmistakable numerical relationships, was recognised by Professor Pickering in spectrographs of the 2.5 magnitude star Zeta Puppis,[1422] and the identification was shortly afterwards extended to prominent Wolf-Rayet emission lines. The discovery was capped by Dr. Rydberg's indication of the Wolf-Rayet blue band at Lambda 4,688 as ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke


Words linked to "Puppis" :   constellation, Argo


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