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To: SunkenCiv
Piscis Austrinus is due south of the constellation Aquarius. It has one bright star, Fomalhaut (Arabic for "the mouth of the fish").

Piscis Austrinus means "southern fish." Or maybe "fish that speaks Austrian."

5 posted on 03/24/2016 6:25:00 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

About Fomalhaut. It also has a dusk disk around it and may have a planet system forming.

It also may have two widely spaced companion stars, on is TWPsA a variable star almost 1 light year away. The other suspect is almost 2.5 light years away, but, seems to also be bound with Famalhaut.

More study is needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomalhaut

It’s one of my favorite stars!


8 posted on 03/24/2016 9:21:46 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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