Musca
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Template:Infobox Constellation Musca (Latin for Fly) is one of the minor southern constellations. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597, and it first appeared in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.
It contains the soft X-ray transient Nova Muscae 1991 which is a binary star, where one of the stars is a black hole. During the 1991 outburst, radiation produced by positron annihilation was detected from Nova Muscae.
History
Since Musca was introduced in the 17th century, by Johann Bayer, and lies near the southern pole, it was not known to classical or early cultures, and so they produced no mythology concerning it.
Stars
- Stars with Bayer designations:
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External links
- The Deep Photographic Guide to the Constellations: Musca (http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/chamaeleon/)de:Fliege (Sternbild)
fr:Mouche (constellation) ko:파리자리 it:Musca nl:Musca ja:はえ座 pl:Mucha (gwiazdozbir) pt:Musca sv:Musca th:กลุ่มดาวแมลงวัน zh:苍蝇座