Winter · Argo Navis

Pyxis

Another fragment of the ancient Argo Navis, Pyxis represents the ship's compass. It contains the recurrent nova T Pyxidis, which explosively brightens every few decades — most recently in 2011 — reaching naked-eye visibility.

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