Fornax

Fornax ("oven"), in Roman mythology, was the goddess of bread and baking.

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Fornax (the furnace) is a southern constellation which was first introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille under the name Fornax Chemica (the chemical furnace). The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located within the constellation. At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown "dwarf" galaxies in this constellation. They also described Fornax as being "on Earth's doorstep". 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. "Tens of millions of stars are squashed into what is a tiny volume by galaxy standards," the observatory said in a statement. \n\n\n\nCategory:Constellations