Carina
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- noun
- /kəˈraɪnə/
- For a time, it seemed that rain would fall, but by midmorning the clouds had drifted south; in the suddenly clear air, the light of Carina 4269 was like an antique tincture.
Examples
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Carina 4269 swung across the sky, overtaking the sky-car and dropping into the west.
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Carina 4269, sinking, laid a topaz trail across the leaden water.
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Beyond the encampment lay the open plain and the far hills, black and gold in the light of Carina 4269.
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How often then would he lie under the night sky looking up into Argo Navis for the invisible brown sun Carina 4269 and its dim planet Tschai?
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What with the need for stealth, progress was slow; sunset found them toiling up a gulch just below the ridge, and they came forth just in time to see the last corroded sliver of Carina 4269 fade from sight.
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After midnight, the constellation Carina the Keel ascends in the southeast.
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The stellar nursery is located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina.
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Another of the southern sky's brightest open clusters, NGC 3532 in Carina, is easily visible to the naked eye.
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Etymology
Carina comes from the Latin carina 'keel', the bottom part of a ship. So the southern constellation was named Carina because its stars make a shape like a ship's keel in the sky.