Fornax (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fornax is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was identified in the eighteenth century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Fornax has been the target of investigations into the furthest reaches of the universe. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located within Fornax, and the Fornax Cluster, a small cluster of galaxies, lies primarily within Fornax. At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown "dwarf" galaxies in this constellation; 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.