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What does Fornax mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (astronomy) A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.
  2. (astronomy) A dwarf galaxy located in the constellation Fornax.
  3. (Roman) The Roman goddess of ovens.
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Two appeared in NGC 1316, a galaxy better known as Fornax A, a strong radio galaxy near the centre of the Fornax cluster.
Sixty million light-years from Earth in the Fornax constellation, two neighboring galaxies have very different histories.
Then the group must locate the Swell Foop and use it to free Demon Earth on Fornax, a small foreign galaxy.
First light was obtained on Sept 12 which imaged the Fornax cluster.
We here have the calidarium supported on the pillars of the Fornax, the suspensura.
Jardel used telescope observations of several of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, including the Carina, Draco, Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans dwarf galaxies.

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