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Musca Australis, meaning the Southern Fly, is the former name of the modern constellation Musca. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille used the name in eighteenth-century astronomical work, and later usage shortened it to Musca. The constellation lies in the southern sky near Chamaeleon and Crux and is represen...
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Cancer Minor was Petrus Plancius's 1613 Lesser Crab in southwestern Gemini, a small northern constellation later dropped from standard atlases.
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