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Constellation on the celestial equator
its northeastern corner. Sextans was introduced by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687, originally under the name Sextans Uraniae. The constellation
Sextans
Dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation Sextans
observed the OB-type stars that power the giant HII regions. Sextans B "Results for object Sextans A". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA and Caltech. Retrieved
Sextans_A
Ancient Roman coin
reduced to about 50 grams, resulting in the sextans weighing about 8 grams. The most common design for the sextans was the bust of Mercury and two pellets
Sextans_(coin)
Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin, Peter Bunclark, Mick Bridgeland and Richard McMahon
Sextans_Dwarf_Spheroidal
According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Sextans is located within the southern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized
Sextans_in_Chinese_astronomy
Topics referred to by the same term
mnemonic Seax, or sex, a knife used by ancient Germanic peoples Sex, abbreviation of Sextans, a constellation Sodium ethyl xanthate, a chemical compound Sex-
Sex
Species of dragonfly
Gynacantha sextans is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast
Gynacantha_sextans
Galaxy group in the constellations of Hydra, Sextans, Antlia and Leo
The Antlia-Sextans Group is a small Galaxy group in the constellations Hydra, Sextans, Antlia and Leo. It is, on average, approximately 4.3 million light-years
Antlia-Sextans_Group
Dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation Sextans
classification scheme. Sextans B may also be gravitationally associated with the galaxies NGC 3109 and the Antlia Dwarf. Sextans B has a uniform stellar population
Sextans_B
Group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way
NGC 3109, with its companions Sextans A and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy as well as Sextans B, Leo P, Antlia B and possibly Leo A, is uncertain due to extreme
Local_Group
Lyman-break galaxy in the constellation Sextans
MoM-z14 is the most distant known galaxy, with a redshift of z = 14.44. The galaxy was first imaged on May 16, 2025 by the NIRcam instrument aboard the
MoM-z14
Northern half of the celestial sphere
Minor, Cetus, Hydra, Leo, Monoceros, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pisces, Serpens, Sextans, Taurus, and Virgo) lie in some piece on the southern hemisphere. Eridanus
Northern_celestial_hemisphere
Set of 32 astronomical star chart cards
Solitarius, the thrush) Corvus Crater Sextans Uraniae (original name of Sextans) Hydra Felis (obsolete, represented a cat) Lupus Centaurus Antlia Pneumatica
Urania's_Mirror
2023 turn-based tactical video game
contents of Sextans' neural cloud were deliberately damaged when she connected to it to gather information from her, Dier notices that Sextans' unusual Doll
Girls'_Frontline_2:_Exilium
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Sextans, sorted by decreasing apparent magnitude. List of stars by constellation ESA (1997). "The
List_of_stars_in_Sextans
Numbers in the Roman numeral system
like (⁙) (as on the face of a die) are known as a quincunx, from the name of the Roman fraction/coin. The Latin words sextans and quadrans are the source
Roman_numerals
Zodiac constellation straddling the celestial equator
and one of the most easily recognizable due to its many bright stars and a distinctive shape that is reminiscent of the crouching lion it depicts. Leo
Leo_(constellation)
Puppis Pyxis Reticulum Sagitta Sagittarius Scorpius Sculptor Scutum Serpens Sextans Taurus Telescopium Triangulum Triangulum Australe Tucana Ursa Major Ursa
Lists_of_stars
Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
grand-design spiral galaxy located at a redshift distance of z=5.2 (12.8 Gly) in the constellation of Sextans. It is believed to be the most distant
Zhúlóng_(galaxy)
Topics referred to by the same term
SEXTANT Sextant (semigraphics), a 2×3 semigraphical pixel array in computing Sextans, a minor equatorial constellation Sextans (coin), an ancient Roman coin
Sextant_(disambiguation)
Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
NGC 3122 and NGC 3518, is an active spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextans. It contains extensive Hubble-type Sb star-forming regions, and is located
NGC_3110
Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
called the Spindle Galaxy or Caldwell 53) is a field lenticular (S0) galaxy in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel
NGC_3115
Hubble Space Telescope Treasury Project
environment. The survey covers a field, often known as the COSMOS field, of 2 square degrees of sky in the constellation Sextans. The centre of the field in
Cosmic_Evolution_Survey
System of measurement used in Ancient Rome
also used for divisions of a libra, and the symbols U+10190–U+10195 are likewise also symbols for weights: U+10190 (𐆐): Sextans U+10191 (𐆑): Uncia U+10192
Ancient Roman units of measurement
Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement
Star in the constellation Sextans
the brightest star in the equatorial constellation of Sextans. It is visible to the naked eye on a dark night with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.49
Alpha_Sextantis
Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
or known as 2MASX J09442693+0429569, is a type S0 lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of Sextans. It is located 655 million light-years from
PGC_3092152
Galaxy containing the Solar System
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, and Leo I Dwarf. The smallest dwarf galaxies of the
Milky_Way
Roman god of trade, merchants and travel
commerce was depicted on two early bronze coins of the Roman Republic, the sextans and the semuncia. When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes
Mercury_(mythology)
Satellite galaxy of the Milky Way
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years)
Large_Magellanic_Cloud
Interstellar object that passed near Earth in 2017
constellation Sextans, but no activity was detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar. On 27 June 2018, astronomers reported that ʻOumuamua was thought to be a mildly
1I/ʻOumuamua
Dusty star forming galaxy
AzTECC71 is a dusty star-forming galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), reported by NASA in early December 2023. This red ghost-like
AzTECC71
Astronomical catalogue of dwarf galaxies
Way. DDO 70 (also known as Sextans B, PGC 28913 or UGC 5373) is an irregular galaxy which is in the constellation of Sextans. It is located 4.44 million
David Dunlap Observatory Catalogue
David_Dunlap_Observatory_Catalogue
Bronze and later copper coin used in Ancient Rome
semis (1⁄2), quincunx (5⁄12), triens (1⁄3), quadrans (1⁄4), sextans (1⁄6), uncia (1⁄12, also a common weight unit), and semuncia (1⁄24), as well as multiples
As_(Roman_coin)
Stellar Populations in the Metal-poor, Dwarf Irregular Galaxies Sextans a and Leo A". The Astrophysical Journal. 854 (2): 117. arXiv:1712.06594. doi:10
List_of_coolest_stars
Galaxy in the constellation Antlia
constellation Antlia. It is the fourth and faintest member of the nearby Antlia-Sextans Group of galaxies. The galaxy contains stars of all ages, contains significant
Antlia_Dwarf
Below is a list of the smallest known galaxies ordered by their diameters. Every galaxy on this list is below 20,000 light-years and they are sorted in
List_of_smallest_galaxies
Term in numismatics
BC) Quadrans (c. 230–226 BC. weight 63.19 g Vecchi 61; Crawford 27/8) Sextans (c. 289–245 BC) Quincunx (coin) (after 220 BC) Teruncius (Apulia, Luceria
Aes_grave
Great Comet of 2024
twilight on 11 September 2024, when it was located in the constellation of Sextans, at a magnitude of 5.5. The comet was spotted with the naked eye and photographed
Comet_Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
Survey. This is a list of galaxies that are well known by something other than an entry in a catalog or list, or a set of coordinates, or a systematic designation
List_of_galaxies
Low-luminosity galaxy of old stars and little dust
that they orbit. For example, the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy has a velocity dispersion of 7.9±1.3 km/s, which is a velocity dispersion that could not
Dwarf_spheroidal_galaxy
Tool for angle measurement
ships. The frame of a sextant is in the shape of a sector which is approximately 1⁄6 of a circle (60°), hence its name (sextāns, sextantis is the Latin
Sextant
to constellations Canes Venatici, Coma Berenices, Leo, Leo Minor, Lynx, Sextans, Ursa Major and Virgo. Added Stars The Heavenly Market Enclosure (天市垣,
List_of_Chinese_star_names
High-redshift galaxy in the constellation Sextans
CAPERS-LRD-z9 is a galaxy that is among the oldest ever observed, having formed 13.3 billion years ago, just 500 million years after the Big Bang. For a little
CAPERS-LRD-z9
Victoriatus The victoriatus was a silver coin issued during the Roman Republic from about 221 BC to 170 BC. The obverse of the coin featured the bust
Victoriatus
Seyfert 1 galaxy located in the constellation Sextans
PG 1012+008 is a Seyfert 1 galaxy located in the constellation of Sextans. The redshift for this object is (z) 0.186 and it was first discovered in 1984
PG_1012+008
Old G-type star with one exoplanet
of Sextans. It has a mass of 0.9 solar masses, a radius of 1.3 solar radii and a temperature of 5,842 Kelvin. There is so far one planet detected, a low-density
WASP-127
Aes rude (Latin; lit. 'rough bronze') was a nugget of bronze used as a sort of proto-currency in ancient Italy prior to the use of minted coins made from
Aes_rude
Projection of Earth's equator out into space
sphere on the same plane as the equator of a planet, by convention generally Earth. By extension, it is also a plane of reference in the equatorial coordinate
Celestial_equator
Ancient Roman coin
to the nominal value of two and a half asses, a value useful in commerce because it was one quarter of a denarius, a coin worth ten asses. The etymology
Sestertius
Late Roman Empire gold coin
: solidi) or nomisma (Greek: νόμισμα, romanized: nómisma, lit. 'coin') was a highly pure gold coin issued in the Later Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire
Solidus
Gold coin of ancient Rome
the state finances, the gold in the reserve was sold for minted silver, at a ratio of 1 to 12. The Second Punic War (218–201), due to its considerable
Aureus
Publius Manlius Vulso was a member of the Roman patrician gens Manlia. In 210 BC he was praetor of Sardinia. Publius Manlius Vulso held the office of
Publius Manlius Vulso (praetor)
Publius_Manlius_Vulso_(praetor)
Constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union
recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Each constellation is a region of the sky bordered by arcs of right ascension and declination, together
IAU_designated_constellations
Galaxy in Sextans constellation
NGC 3014 (also known as LEDA 28222 ) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextans. It was discovered on February 19, 1830, by John Herschel. astronomy
NGC_3014
This is a list of star systems within 300–350 light years of Earth. List of star systems within 250–300 light-years List of star systems within 350–400
List of star systems within 300–350 light-years
List_of_star_systems_within_300–350_light-years
Small galaxy composed of up to several billion stars
Irregular Galaxy Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy Sculptor Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Sextans A Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Small Magellanic Cloud Tucana Dwarf Ursa Major I
Dwarf_galaxy
Discredited cosmological model, early 20th Century
Milky Way is the only such galactic structure in the universe, surrounded by a starless void only occasionally populated by extragalactic nebulae. Thomas
Galactocentrism
Names of numbers in the Proto-Indo-European language
Other reconstructions typically differ only slightly from Beekes and Sihler. A nineteenth-century reconstruction (by Brugmann) for thousand is *tūsḱmtiə
Proto-Indo-European_numerals
Astronomical objects
Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of supergiant stars. They are created as a result of supernovas and gravitational collapse, and are the second-smallest
List_of_neutron_stars
Coin given to Jesus during his "Render unto Caesar" speech
to give tribute to Caesar, or not?" (Mark 12:14) and he replies, "bring me a penny, that I may see it" (Mark 12:15). One interpretation of the relevant
Tribute_penny
List of systems with multiple planets
of 4,809 stars known to have exoplanets (as of 23 April 2026), there are a total of 1,061 known multiplanetary systems, or stars with at least two confirmed
List of multiplanetary systems
List_of_multiplanetary_systems
Seyfert 1 galaxy in Sextans
PG 1011−040 is a Seyfert type 1 galaxy and a radio-quiet quasar located in the constellation of Sextans. The redshift of the galaxy is (z) 0.058 and it
PG_1011−040
Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
NGC 3166 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy lies about 65 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its apparent
NGC_3166
Astronomer and chairman of the city council of the Old Town of Gdańsk (1611–1687)
to observe the great comet of December 1680. He named the constellation Sextans in memory of this lost instrument. In late 1683, in commemoration of the
Johannes_Hevelius
Roman gold coin
The dacicus (meaning "Dacian") was a gold coin issued during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (50–96) in honor of his claimed victory against the
Dacicus
Supernova in the constellation Sextans
which occurred in between June and November 2006 in the constellation Sextans. Its peak far-ultraviolet absolute magnitude reached −21.5, which exceeded
SN_1000+0216
November 2023. Thompson, Leroy (19 October 2009). The Counter Terrorist Manual: A Practical Guide to Elite International Units. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78346-938-3
List of equipment of the Russian Ground Forces
List_of_equipment_of_the_Russian_Ground_Forces
Roman bronze coin
around 280 BC, a new, lighter triens was first struck as part of a family of fractional bronze coins including semis, quadrans, sextans and uncia with
Triens
Rare star with tremendous luminosity and high rates of mass loss by stellar winds
Cassiopeiae V810 Centauri A V1427 Aquilae Variable A (in M33) In Westerlund 1: W4 W8a W12a W16a W32 W265 In the Sextans galaxy: Sextans A7 In the LS1 galaxy/globular
Hypergiant
star is actually located in the constellation of Hydra near the border of Sextans and Leo (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy)
Hydra_in_Chinese_astronomy
F-type subgiant; Sextans
3879; 1 G. Sextantis) is a solitary star located in the equatorial constellation Sextans. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a yellowish-white hued
HD_84607
Southern half of the celestial sphere
Austrinus Puppis Pyxis Reticulum Sagittarius Scorpius Sculptor Scutum Serpens Sextans Taurus Telescopium Triangulum Australe Tucana Vela Virgo Volans The first
Southern_celestial_hemisphere
Designated common star constellations
It includes Hercules, Sagitta, Aquila, Lyra, Cygnus, Vulpecula, Hydra, Sextans, Crater, Corvus, Ophiuchus, Serpens, Scutum, Centaurus, Lupus, Corona Australis
Constellation_family
Galaxy which is less bright than the ambient night sky
Malin 2 Phoenix Dwarf Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (SagDIG) Sextans A Sextans B Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte galaxy (WLM) UGC 477 Ultra diffuse galaxy
Low_surface_brightness_galaxy
Galaxy quasar in the constellation Sextans
J100043.1+020637) is a galaxy quasar about 3.9 billion light years away in the constellation Sextans. It is believed to have a supermassive black hole
CID-42
Constellation straddling the celestial equator
such in some Greek myths. One myth associates it with a water snake that a crow served Apollo in a cup when it was sent to fetch water. Apollo saw through
Hydra_(constellation)
Star in the constellation Sextans
Gliese 393, or GJ 393, is a single star with an orbiting exoplanet companion in the equatorial constellation of Sextans, positioned about 1.5° to the
Gliese_393
Area of the sky divided into twelve signs
Andromeda. Modern astronomers have noted that planets pass through Crater, Sextans, Cetus, Pegasus, Corvus, Hydra, Orion, and Scutum, with Venus very rarely
Zodiac
Symbols in astronomy
Sagittarius Scorpius Sculptor Scutum Serpens Serpens Cauda Serpens Caput Sextans Taurus Telescopium Triangulum Triangulum Australe Tucana Ursa Major Ursa
Astronomical_symbols
Galaxy cluster in the constellation Sextans
telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, it has a redshift of z=2.506, placing it at a distance of 11.1 billion light-years from Earth.[clarification
CL_J1001+0220
Type 2 quasar in the constellation Sextans
SDSS J101043.36+061201.4 is a radio-quiet type 2 quasar with an active galactic nucleus, located in the constellation of Sextans. The redshift of the galaxy
J1010+0612
This is a list of star systems within 400–450 light years of Earth. List of star systems within 350–400 light-years List of star systems within 450–500
List of star systems within 400–450 light-years
List_of_star_systems_within_400–450_light-years
Graphemes for various number systems
exist, a matching Antiqua typeface is used for Roman numerals. Unicode has characters for Roman fractions in the Ancient Symbols block: sextans, uncia
Numerals_in_Unicode
Star-forming galaxy in the constellation Sextans
COS-3mm-1) is a star-forming galaxy about 12.5 billion light-years away that is obscured by clouds of dust. It is located in the constellation of Sextans. It was
3MM-1
Star in the constellation Leo
58 Leonis is a possible binary star system in the southern part of the constellation of Leo, near the border with Sextans. It shines with an apparent magnitude
58_Leonis
Roman and Byzantine bronze coins
follis (plural folles; Italian: follaro, Arabic: فلس, romanized: fals) is both a general term for specific types of bronze coinage that circulated during the
Follis
Galaxy cluster in the constellation Sextans
square degree Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field of the constellation Sextans. Hyperion's redshift is z=2.45 putting it 11 billion light years from Earth;
Hyperion_proto-supercluster
Galaxy in Sextans constellation
(also known as PGC 28220) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sextans. It was discovered in 1886 by Ormond Stone. List of NGC objects (3001-4000)
NGC_3017
Deep image of the Universe
spectroscopic analysis from X-rays to radio waves, in a region of two square degrees in the Constellation Sextans. COSMOS, when it was proposed in 2003 as an exploratory
COSMOS_field
Star in the constellation Sextans
Sextantis, Latinized from ε Sextantis, is a solitary, yellow-white hued star in the equatorial constellation of Sextans. With an apparent visual magnitude of
Epsilon_Sextantis
Overview of the scientific field of astronomy
Puppis Pyxis Reticulum Sagitta Sagittarius Scorpius Sculptor Scutum Serpens Sextans Taurus Telescopium Triangulum Triangulum Australe Tucana Ursa Major Ursa
Outline_of_astronomy
Ancient Roman currency
consisted of cast ingots of bronze of measured quality and weight, embossed with a government stamp, used as currency in Rome and central Italy starting in the
Aes_signatum
Silver Roman coin, half a denarius
(plural: quinarii; symbol: 𐆗) was a small silver Roman coin valued at half a denarius. The quinarius was struck for a few years, along with the silver
Quinarius
Dwarf irregular Galaxy in the constellation Leo
away, and may not be part of it, instead being part of the Antlia-Sextans Group, a small grouping of galaxies adjacent to the Local Group, sometimes considered
Leo_P
{\displaystyle d_{pc}=10^{{\frac {m-M}{5}}+1}} Galaxies of small Antlia-Sextans Group, which is considered as part of Local Group, but membership of it
List_of_nearest_galaxies
Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of July 2026, the list included a total of 605 proper names of stars
List_of_proper_names_of_stars
Currency of ancient Rome
the denarius coin), the British pound (a translation of the Roman libra, a unit of weight), the peso (also a translation of libra), and the words for
Roman_currency
Stream of neutral hydrogen gas linking the two Magellanic clouds
been shown to have low Iron abundances in a metallicity regime comparable to the dwarf galaxies of Sextans A and Leo P. "Polish astronomers spot young
Magellanic_Bridge
The dodrans (a contraction of Latin dequadrans: "less a quarter") or nonuncium (from Latin nona uncia: "ninth twelfth") was an Ancient Roman bronze coin
Dodrans
is a list of galaxy groups and clusters that are well known by something other than an entry in a catalog or list, or a set of coordinates, or a systematic
List of galaxy groups and clusters
List_of_galaxy_groups_and_clusters
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