This constellation may have been discovered by French sailor Augustine Royer or the French explorer Abbé de la Caille.
This constellation may have been discovered by French sailor Augustine Royer or the French explorer Abbé de la Caille. Its beta star was named after a species of fern with a globe-like appearance and sits very near to the open star cluster known as the Jewel Box; this beta star is known as Mimosa. Three of its five stars are among the 25 brightest in the night sky and four of its stars were mentioned in Dante's Purgatorio; its alpha star sits on top of the so-called Black Magellanic Cloud, also known as the Coalsack Nebula. Originally considered only a subset of the stars in Centaurus, FTP, name this constellation near Carina and Alpha Centauri, which can also be called Crux Australis.
This constellation may have been discovered by French sailor Augustine Royer or the French explorer Abbé de la Caille.
{Southern Cross} (also accept just {Crux} or {Crux Australis} before the word Crux)