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Pictornoun
a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Columba
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Pictornoun
A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From pīctor, an "easel"
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Pictor
Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, located between the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris (the "painter's easel"). Normally represented as an easel, Pictor was named by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century. The constellation's brightest star is Alpha Pictoris, a white main-sequence star around 97 light-years away from Earth. Pictor also hosts RR Pictoris, a cataclysmic variable star system that flared up as a nova, reaching apparent (visual) magnitude 1.2 in 1925 before fading into obscurity.Pictor has attracted attention because of its second-brightest star Beta Pictoris, 63.4 light-years distant from Earth, which is surrounded by an unusual dust disk rich in carbon, as well as an exoplanet (extrasolar planet). Another five stars in the constellation have been observed to have planets. Among them is HD 40307, an orange dwarf that has six planets orbiting it, one of which—HD 40307 g—is a potential super-Earth in the circumstellar habitable zone. Kapteyn's Star, the nearest star in Pictor to Earth, is a red dwarf located 12.76 light-years away that was found to have two super-Earths in orbit in 2014. Pictor A is a radio galaxy that is shooting an 800,000 light-year long jet of plasma from a supermassive black hole at its centre. In 2006, a gamma-ray burst—GRB 060729—was observed in Pictor, its extremely long X-ray afterglow detectable for nearly two years.
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pictor
"Pictor" is a term derived from Latin, which means "painter". It is also the name of a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, originally named "Equuleus Pictoris" (the painter's easel).
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Pictor
Pictor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky, located between the brilliant star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, but it is in fact an abbreviation of its original name Equuleus Pictoris, the 'painter's easel', and it is normally represented as an easel. It was invented and named by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century. Pictor has attracted attention in recent years because of its second-brightest star Beta Pictoris, 63.4 light-years distant, which is surrounded by an unusual dust disk rich in carbon, as well as an extrasolar planet. Another four stars have been found to have extrasolar planets. The constellation also hosts RR Pictoris, a nova which brightened to magnitude 1.2 in 1925.
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tropic
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pictor in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pictor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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