Detail from ‘Atlas Maritimus & Commercialis’ by Nathaniel Cutler and Sir Edmond Halley (1728) The constellation is typically called “Musca Borealis” or “the Northern Fly”. Considered a ...

The southern sky, well, it has Musca. The fly. The constellations Vela, Carina, and Puppis all have oddly nautically themed Latin names that don’t really make sense without their backstory.

objects or events you can see in the sky.

examined a narrow gas cloud in the constellation Musca, located between about 490 and 650 light-years from Earth. What looked like a narrow wisp of cloud that should have been condensed enough to ...

Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca (The Fly), this tightly packed collection of stars -- known as a globular cluster -- goes by the name of NGC 4833.

The star, called TYC 8998-760-1, is about 300 light-years away in the constellation Musca. At just 17 million years old, the planetary family is a youngster compared with the 4-billion-year-old ...

The pulsar is located 10,000 to 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Musca (the fly), which is near the famous Southern Cross constellation. A pulsar is a fast-spinning neutron star ...

They said the star is officially known as TYC 8998-760-1 and located in the Musca, or Fly, constellation. They have determined it is barely 17 million years old — a youngster compared to our sun ...

Named TYC 8998-760-1 and located about 300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Musca, the star is similar in mass to the sun. Its two known planets, however, are distinctly alien ...

A giant interstellar formation, the Musca cloud, located near the Southern Cross (Crux) constellation has been mapped and its 3D structure unravelled by astronomers from the University of Crete ...