On a grander scale, Hydra I is just one of a half-dozen Abell clusters and several smaller groups that spread into the constellations
Antlia, Vela, and Centaurus, forming the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster (S&T: April 2002, p.
Anne Washburn writes weird plays, and "
Antlia Pneumatica" is no exception, although it does seem more grounded in reality than her post-apocalyptic "Mr.
Antlia Pneumatica, Anne Washburn; dir: Ken Rus Schmoll.
Further south-east, on the border with the constellation
Antlia, the spiral galaxy NGC 3393 contains a pair of super-massive black holes.
lHigh drama in the opening Knavesmere seller as the judge cannot split Embargo (John Dunlop/Ron Hutchinson) and
Antlia (Peter Robinson/Wally Hood).
"We also speculate that an unusual warp in the disk of this galaxy could be caused by a tidal interaction with its dwarf companion galaxy known as
Antlia," Carignan adds.
This darker region of sky stretches south through Cancer, Sextans, and western Hydra to
Antlia the Air Pump.
It is unusual to find galaxies so close to the Milky Way, yet Vela offers a dozen or more NGC galaxies in the eastern extreme of the constellation, spilling over into
Antlia. The NGC 3256 group contains five galaxies, situated 3 degrees north-east of the globular cluster NGC 3201 and covering an area of only 46 arc minutes.
I'd go anywhere to see Anne Wash burn's latest, and Playwrights Horizons in New York City gets her (
Antlia Pneumatica, March 11-April 24, 2016).
The apparently insignificant constellation
Antlia lies just south of Hydra and borders Vela to the north, lying along the branches of the Milky Way.
Not to be judged on its IC number, a fairly bright galaxy, IC 2469, is situated 50 arc minutes west of the border with
Antlia and 4.4 degrees north of NGC 2818.
