Fornax is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, partly ringed by the celestial river Eridanus. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaill
Fornax Chemica can be seen below Cetus in this card from Urania's Mirror (1825).
The constellation Fornax as it can be seen by the naked eye.
Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field seen with MUSE.
Cetus is a constellation, sometimes called 'the whale' in English. In Greek mythology, the Cetus was a large sea monster which both Perseus and Heracles needed to slay. Cetus is in the region of the s
Fornax
…0 Stars within 10.00 pc (32.62 ly) 2 Brightest star α For (3.80m) Nearest star LP 944-20 Messier objects 0 Meteor showers 0 Bordering constellations Cetus Sculptor Phoenix Eridanus Visible at latitudes between +50° and −90°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of December. Fornax () is a…
Cetus annotated with lines (a "stick figure") from a latitude further north (north of its declination), above a horizon, in conditions ideal for observation.
Messier 77 spiral galaxy - HST (Hubble Space Telescope).
The spiral galaxy NGC 298 basks in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 298 lies around 89 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, and appears isolated in this image — only a handful of distant galaxies and foreground stars accompany the lonely galaxy.
An alike depiction from Celestial Atlas (A. Jamieson) (1822)