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Vela (the sails) is a southern constellation, one of the three parts into which Argo Navis was split.

It contains the stars Delta Velorum and Kappa Velorum which together with Iota Carinae and Epsilon Carinae form the asterism known as the "false cross", which is sometimes mistaken for the Southern CrossCrux Abbreviation Cru Genitive Crucis Meaning in English Cross Right ascension 12 h Declination minus;60° Visible to latitude Between 20° and −90° Evening visibility May Area Total Ranked 88th68 sq. Number of stars with apparent magnitude 4 Brightes.

Also of interest within the constellation is the Vela Supernova Remnant. This is the nebulaThis article refers to nebulas in space. For the band Nebula, go to Nebula (band). Triangulum Emission Nebula NGC 604 lies in a spiral arm of Galaxy M33, 2. 7 million light-years from Earth. This nebula is a region in which stars are forming. A nebula (La of a supernovaRemnant of Kepler's Supernova, SN 1604. A supernova is a type of stellar explosion which appears to result in the creation of a new star upon the celestial sphere. Nova" is Latin for "new"). The "super" prefix distinguishes this from a nova, which also in explosion which is believed to have been visible from the Earth around 10000 years ago. The remant contains a pulsarCrab Nebula pulsar, showing surrounding nebular gases stirred by the pulsar's magnetic field and radiation. A pulsar which originally stood for pulsating radio source is a rapidly rotating neutron star, whose electromagnetic radiation is observed in regul which was the first pulsar to be identified optically apart from that in the Crab NebulaThe Crab Nebula (also known as Messier Object 1 M1 or NGC 1952 is the object which started Charles Messier logging non-cometary objects on his Messier Catalog. It is an expanding cloud of gas thrown off in the explosion associated with the July 4, 1054 su.