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    galaxy in the early universe, is located in the constellation Sextans (artist concept) Sextans B is a fairly bright dwarf irregular galaxy at magnitude 6...
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    galaxies, which includes the Milky Way galaxy, and to which Sextans A may or may not belong. Sextans A has a peculiar square shape. Massive short-lived stars...
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    The sextans was an Ancient Roman bronze coin produced during the Roman Republic valued at one-sixth of an as (2 unciae). The most common design for the...
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  • constellation of Sextans". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 244: 16–19. Bibcode:1990MNRAS.244P..16I. Hartmut Frommert. "Sextans Dwarf". SEDS...
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    The Antlia-Sextans Group is a small Galaxy group in the constellations Hydra, Sextans, Antlia and Leo. It is generally considered to be at the very edge...
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    The membership of NGC 3109, with its companions Sextans A and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy as well as Sextans B, Leo P, Antlia B and possibly Leo A, is uncertain...
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    Sextans B (also known as UGC 5373 and DDO 70) is an irregular galaxy that may be part of the Local Group, or lie just beyond it. Sextans B is 4.44 million...
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  • political party in Australia Seax, a knife used by ancient Germanic peoples Sextans or Sex, a constellation Sex (boutique), in London SEX (computing), an assembly...
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    or Caldwell 53) is a field lenticular (S0) galaxy in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on February 22, 1787. At...
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  • According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Sextans is located within the southern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized...
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  • Gynacantha sextans is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast...
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    obsolete Turdus Solitarius, the thrush) Corvus Crater Sextans Uraniae (original name of Sextans) Hydra Felis (obsolete, represented a cat) Lupus Centaurus...
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    Malin 2 Phoenix Dwarf Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (SagDIG) Sextans A Sextans B Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte galaxy (WLM) UGC 477 Ultra diffuse galaxy...
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    commerce was depicted on two early bronze coins of the Roman Republic, the sextans and the semuncia. When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes...
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    Cosmic Evolution Survey (category Sextans)
    known as the COSMOS field, of 2 square degrees of sky in the constellation Sextans. The centre of the field in j2000 coordinates is at Right Ascension 10:00:24...
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    bes (2⁄3), semis (1⁄2), quincunx (5⁄12), triens (1⁄3), quadrans (1⁄4), sextans (1⁄6), uncia (1⁄12, also a common weight unit), and semuncia (1⁄24), as...
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    Bordering constellations Ursa Major Leo Minor Lynx (corner) Cancer Hydra Sextans Crater Virgo Coma Berenices Visible at latitudes between +90° and −65°...
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    ecliptic at the beginning of August and then moves towards the constellation Sextans. With increasing apparent brightness, it turns back toward the constellation...
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    COSMOS field (category Sextans)
    to radio waves, in a region of two square degrees in the Constellation Sextans. COSMOS, when it was proposed in 2003 as an exploratory survey to be carried...
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    Irregular Galaxy Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy Sculptor Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Sextans A Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Small Magellanic Cloud Tucana Dwarf Ursa Major I...
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    Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, and Leo I Dwarf. The smallest dwarf galaxies of the...
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    Taurus Eridanus Orion (near Orion's belt) Monoceros Canis Minor Hydra Sextans Leo Virgo (contains the first point of Libra) Serpens (caput) Ophiuchus...
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    been expected to occur on 18 October 2017 coming from the constellation Sextans, but no activity was detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar. On 27...
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    bronze sextans possibly struck by authority of P. Manlius Vulso in Sardinian mint 210 BC...
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    a quincunx, from the name of the Roman fraction/coin. The Latin words sextans and quadrans are the source of the English words sextant and quadrant....
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    field of the Milky Way or other galaxy that they orbit. For example, the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy has a velocity dispersion of 7.9±1.3 km/s, which...
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  • This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Sextans, sorted by decreasing brightness. List of stars by constellation ESA (1997). "The Hipparcos...
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    Andromeda. Modern astronomers have noted that planets pass through Crater, Sextans, Cetus, Pegasus, Corvus, Hydra, and Scutum, with Venus very rarely passing...
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  • disturbed by the smaller lenticular galaxy IC 4970. Cosmos Redshift 7 Sextans The name of this galaxy is based on a Redshift (z) measurement of nearly...
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  • (semigraphics), a 2×3 semigraphical pixel array in computing Sextans, a minor equatorial constellation Sextans (coin), an ancient Roman coin Sexton (office), an...
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