Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Sculptor and Eridanus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A southern constellation, invented and named by Lacaille in 1763. It lies south of the western part of Eridanus, and, as its boundaries are at present drawn, contains no star of greater magnitude than the fifth.
- noun [NL. (Castelnau, 1835).] A genus of elaterid beetles of wide distribution, found in North and South America, the West and East Indies, Africa, and Australia, of large size and a uniform brownish-black or reddish color, with a fine appressed pubescence. Seven species inhabit North America, among them F. calceatus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy A
winter constellation of thenorthern sky, said to resemble afurnace . It lies near the constellationEridanus . - proper noun astronomy A dwarf
galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. - proper noun Roman mythology The
Roman goddess ofovens .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Cetus and Phoenix
Etymologies
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Examples
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The cluster, called Fornax because of its location in a constellation of the same name, is 60 million light-years from Earth, and is one of the closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The cluster, called Fornax because of its location in a constellation of the same name, is 60 million light-years from Earth, and is one of the closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The fourth WISE picture is of the Fornax cluster, a region of hundreds of galaxies all bound together into one family.
Astronomical Eye Candy from WISE First Images | Universe Today 2010
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WISE's view of the Fornax Cluster. credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Astronomical Eye Candy from WISE First Images | Universe Today 2010
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Setting the detection limit at 1 Gpc would allow us to monitor the Fornax, Coma, Virgo and Perseus galaxy clusters among others for signals.
New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today 2010
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We see globulars in many nearby dwarf galaxies I.e The Fornax Dwarf Galaxy, so therefore it not logical that the Milky Way has taken their globular and made them apart of our own galaxy?
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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The blue star-like images are mostly X-ray bright globular clusters orbiting NGC 1399 which is located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster.
Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole | Universe Today 2010
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The Fornax Galaxy Cluster, including the barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1365 in the lower right, and the elliptical galaxy NGC 1399 to the left of it.
First (of many) Gorgeous Pictures from the New VISTA | Universe Today 2009
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First thing I thought of was globular CMDs, but Steinn beat me to it … how about SBF measurements of relative distances in Virgo and Fornax?
The Impact of the Hubble Space Telescope Julianne 2008
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Tidal forces will destroy this galaxy as it falls towards the center of the Fornax cluster - NGC 1427A, from Hubble
Disruption Dr. Lisa 2005
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