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    The Chamaeleon complex is a large star forming region (SFR) at the surface of the Local Bubble that includes the Chamaeleon I, Chamaeleon II, and Chamaeleon...
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    Chamaeleon (/kəˈmiːliən/) is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a kind of lizard. It was first defined in...
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    towards merger. The Chamaeleon complex is a large star forming region (SFR) that includes the Chamaeleon I, Chamaeleon II, and Chamaeleon III dark clouds...
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    Chameleon (redirect from Chamaeleons)
    Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of...
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    parsecs were found in Rho Ophiuchi Complex, Taurus Complex (e.g. KPNO-Tau 12), Lupus I Cloud and the Chamaeleon Complex (e.g. the well studied OTS 44 and...
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    was called Na Kaua-ki-Tonga. Corona Australis (Chinese astronomy) Chamaeleon complex Bagnall 2012, p. 170. "Corona". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster...
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    IC 2631 (category Chamaeleon)
    "online-gallery/ic-2631-a-reflection-nebula-in-the-chamaeleon-cloud-complex". skyandtelescope.org. "IC 2631 - Nebula in Chamaeleon | TheSkyLive.com". Retrieved 2023-04-19...
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    A.; McGraw, Kevin J. (23 December 2013). "Chameleons communicate with complex colour changes during contests: different body regions convey different...
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    Alpha Chamaeleontis (category Chamaeleon)
    Chamaeleontis, is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Chamaeleon. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.06 and thus is bright enough...
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  • Delta2 Chamaeleontis (category Chamaeleon)
    a solitary star located in the southern circumpolar constellation of Chamaeleon. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.42, which is bright enough for...
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  • Gamma Chamaeleontis (category Chamaeleon)
    a solitary star located in the southern circumpolar constellation of Chamaeleon. It can faintly be seen with the naked eye on a dark night, having an...
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  • Delta1 Chamaeleontis (category Chamaeleon)
    δ1 Chamaeleontis, is a close double star located in the constellation Chamaeleon. It has a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.47, which is just bright...
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    in a single plane. The stem and branches are stiffened by gorgonin, a complex protein that produces a horny skeleton. The coenenchyme, a thin living...
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    species complex. In Asia, PSP is mostly associated with the occurrence of the species Pyrodinium bahamense. Some pufferfish, including the chamaeleon puffer...
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    vicinity—the Rho Oph, Pipe Nebula, Barnard 68, Chamaeleon, Lupus, Corona Australis, and Coalsack cloud complexes (all at distances of ~120-200 parsecs), and...
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    2010-12-09. Robert Burnham, Jr.: Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Volume 2: Chamaeleon through Orion, pages 695-696: NGC 6726-6727-6729 and R Coronae Australis...
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    is derived from the Ancient Greek ἰξία (ixia) ( = χαμαιλέων λευκός, (chamaeleon leukos)), the pine thistle, Carlina gummifera, an unrelated plant in the...
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    balteata Reeve, 1855: probably congeneric with Nerita articulata Nerita chamaeleon Linnaeus, 1758 Nerita chlorostoma Lamarck, 1816 Nerita costata Gmelin...
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  • discoveries. In 1999 the Japanese team Oasa et al. discovered objects in Chamaeleon I that were spectroscopically confirmed years later in 2004 by the US...
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    Furcifer oustaleti (Malagasy giant chameleon), the pair forming a species complex, but each member of the group may be a cryptic species (two species indistinguishable...
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    Blaeu depicts it as providing nourishment for the nearby constellation Chamaeleon—its tongue trying to catch the insect. The French explorer and astronomer...
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    juliae. These taxa are collectively referred to as the C. guibei species complex. Occipital lobes are absent from all other species. The assignment of C...
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    Mediterranean gorgonians: simple indole derivatives from Paramuricea chamaeleon". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C. 61 (2): 361–362. doi:10...
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    Australe) and Scorpius can be seen. Constellations near the pole star include Chamaeleon, Apus and Triangulum Australe (near Centaurus), Pavo, Hydrus, and Mensa...
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    flying reptiles, Londen: Methuen Mivart, G (1881). "A popular account of chamaeleons". Nature. 24 (615): 309–38. Bibcode:1881Natur..24..335.. doi:10.1038/024335f0...
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  • modern Fr. chambellan chambray chameleon, Old Fr. chameleon, from Latin chamaeleon, from Greek khamaileon chamfer chamois champagne champaign champertous...
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    2014. Mariaux, J.; Lutzmann, N.; Stipala, J. (2008). "The two-horned chamaeleons of East Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152 (2):...
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    uses e. Words that can be spelled either way in British English include chamaeleon, encyclopaedia, homoeopathy, mediaeval (a minor variant in both AmE and...
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    32 Orionis Orion 310 22 η Chamaeleontis moving group η Chamaeleontis Chamaeleon 310 11 χ1 Fornacis moving group χ1 Fornacis Fornax 320 40 other name:...
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    First X-ray-emitting brown dwarf found. Cha Helpha 1, an M8 object in the Chamaeleon I dark cloud, is determined to be an X-ray source, similar to convective...
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