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Argo Navis

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | 186 words | Copyright

Argo Navis One of the 48 constellations known to the Greeks, representing the ship of the Argonauts, but broken up in the 18th century by N. L. deLacaille into Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

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