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NGC 468

NGC 468 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. With its distance being approximately 209 million lightyears from earth, it was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1827.

NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light years from Earth in the Pisces constellation. It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a "late-type lenticular galaxy". It was probably formed when t ...

Nu Piscium

Nu Piscium is an orange-hued binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. Prior to the formation of the modern constellation boundaries in 1930, it was designated 51 Ceti in the Cetus constellation. Nu Piscium is visible to the naked ...

Omega Piscium

Omega Piscium is a star approximately 106 light years away from Earth, in the constellation Pisces. It has a spectral type of F4IV, meaning it is a subgiant/dwarf star, and it has a temperature of 6.600 kelvins. It may or may not be a close binar ...

Phi Piscium

Phi Piscium is a binary star system approximately 380 light years away in the constellation Pisces. It consists of Phi Piscium A, with a spectral type of K0III, and Phi Piscium B. Phi Piscium A possesses a surface temperature of 3.500 to 5.000 ke ...

Pi Piscium

Pi Piscium is a solitary, yellow-white hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.60. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 28.50 mas as seen from Earth, it i ...

Psi1 Piscium

Psi 1 Piscium is binary star in constellation of Pisces. It is approximately 280 light years from Earth, based on its parallax. The two components of psi 1 Piscium both types of main sequence stars. The main apparent magnitude is 5.273, while the ...

Psi2 Piscium

Psi 2 Piscium is a white-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.56. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.66 mas as seen from Earth, it is located abou ...

Psi3 Piscium

Psi 3 Piscium, which is Latinized from ψ 3 Piscium, is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.562. Based upon an annual parallax shift o ...

QSO J0005-0006

QSO J0005-0006 is a distant quasar in the ~z≥6 regime. It is one of the first two quasars discovered that appear to be "dust-free", the other being QSO J0303-0019. It was the first such discovered, in 2006, and confirmed in the 2010 study. March ...

Rho Piscium

Rho Piscium is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. With an apparent visual magnitude of +5.34, it is faintly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 39.66 mas as seen from Earth, it is loca ...

Sigma Piscium

Sigma Piscium is a main-sequence star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It has an apparent magnitude of +5.50, meaning it is barely visible to the naked eye, according to the Bortle scale. While parallax measurements by the Hipparcos spacecr ...

Tau Piscium

Tau Piscium is an orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. With an apparent visual magnitude of +4.52, it is a dim star but visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 19.32 mas as seen from Earth, it is locate ...

Theta Piscium

Theta Piscium, Latinized from θ Piscium, is a single, orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces, the fish. The annual parallax shift of this star was measured during the Hipparcos mission as 21.96 mas, which yields a distance estimat ...

TX Piscium

TX Piscium is a variable carbon star in the constellation Pisces. It is amongst the reddest naked eye stars, with a significant reddish hue when seen in binoculars. It is approximately 900 light years from Earth.

Upsilon Piscium

Upsilon Piscium is a solitary, white-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +4.75. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.59 mas as seen from Earth, it is ...

Xi Piscium

Xi Piscium is an orange-hued binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. In 1690, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum regarded the constellation Pisces as being composed of four subdivisions. Xi Piscium ...

Zeta Piscium

Zeta Piscium is a quintuple star system in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. Based upon parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, it is located roughly 170 light-years distant from the Sun. The system consists of the double s ...

Beta Piscis Austrini

Beta Piscis Austrini is catalogued as a binary star system in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.29. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 22.84 mas as seen from ...

Delta Piscis Austrini

Delta Piscis Austrini is a yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.175. There is a magnitude 9.86 common proper motion companion located at an angu ...

Epsilon Piscis Austrini

Epsilon Piscis Austrini is a blue-white hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.17. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.0981 ± 0.3582 mas as seen fro ...

Eta Piscis Austrini

Eta Piscis Austrini is binary star system in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. As of 2000, the two components had an angular separation of 1.818 arc seconds along a position angle of 113.4°. The pair have a combined apparent visual ...

Gamma Piscis Austrini

Gamma Piscis Austrini is binary star system in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +4.448. As of 2010, the pair had an angular separation of 4 arc seconds alo ...

HD 205739 b

HD 205739 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 350 light-years away The planet HD 205739 b is called Samagiya. The name was chosen in the campaign NameExoWorlds Sri Lanka, during the 100th anniversary MASS. Samagiya means unity and uni ...

HD 216770 b

HD 216770 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 216770. It has a mass about two thirds that of Jupiter, largest planet in the Solar System. But unlike the gas giants in the Solar System, it orbits in a very eccentric orbit around the sta ...

Iota Piscis Austrini

Iota Piscis Austrini is a solitary, blue-white hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +4.35 and is around 500 light years from the Sun. This is an A-type main sequence star with a stell ...

Lambda Piscis Austrini

Lambda Piscis Austrini, Latinized from λ Piscis Austrini, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It has a blue-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.42. Based upon an annu ...

Mu Piscis Austrini

Mu Piscis Austrini is a solitary, white-hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.49. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 26.7542 mas as seen from the Ga ...

Pi Piscis Austrini

Pi Piscis Austrini, Latinized from π Piscis Austrini, is binary star system in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus, near the eastern constellation border with Sculptor. It has a yellow-white hue and is visible to the naked eye as a dim ...

Tau Piscis Austrini

Tau Piscis Austrini is a solitary, yellow-white hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.9. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 54.71 mas as seen from t ...

Theta Piscis Austrini

Theta Piscis Austrini is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +5.01. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.16 mas as seen f ...

Upsilon Piscis Austrini

Upsilon Piscis Austrini is a solitary, orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.98. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.69 mas as seen ...

Zeta Piscis Austrini

Zeta Piscis Austrini is an orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +6.43, which is near the lower limit of stars that can be seen with the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax ...

1 Puppis

1 Puppis is a single star in the southern constellation of Puppis. It lies in the northern part of the constellation at a distance of 650 ly, east of Aludra in Canis Major and just above the white supergiant, 3 Puppis. This object is visible to t ...

3 Puppis

3 Puppis is a supergiant star in the constellation Puppis. It is a very rare A star despite its spectral classification, and its apparent magnitude is 3.93. 3 the stern, surrounded by a disk of circumstellar dust, which is unusual for A-type star ...

11 Puppis

11 Puppis is a single star in the southern constellation of Puppis, located approximately 522 light years away based on parallax. It has the Bayer designation j Puppis, 11 Puppis is the Flamsteed designation. This object is visible to the naked e ...

19 Puppis

19 Puppis is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Puppis, near the northern border with Hydra and Monoceros. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.72. The system is loc ...

20 Puppis

20 Puppis is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Puppis. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.99. The star lies approximately 990 light years away from the Sun based on pa ...

171 G. Puppis

171 Puppis is a triple star system in the constellation of Puppis – the stern of Argo Navis – of apparent magnitude +5.38. Lacking a Bayer designation, it is instead known by its Gould designation. Based upon parallax measurements, the system is ...

Arp-Madore 2

Arp-Madore 2 is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Puppis. It is almost 30.000 light-years away and about 5 billion years old.

Calabash Nebula

The Calabash Nebula, also known as the Rotten Egg Nebula or by its technical name OH 231.84 +4.22, is a protoplanetary nebula 1.4 light years long and located some 5.000 light years from Earth in the constellation Puppis. The name "Calabash Nebul ...

CG 4

CG 4, commonly referred to as Gods Hand, is a star-forming region located in the Puppis constellation, about 1.300 light-years from Earth. It is one of several objects referred to as "cometary globules", because its shape is similar to that of a ...

Chi Puppis

χ Puppis, Latinised as Chi Puppis, is a class A5II star in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.79 and it is approximately 1210 light years away based on parallax. In his star Neue Uranometrie Atlas, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander ...

Collinder 135

Collinder 135, known sometimes as the Pi Puppis Cluster, is an open cluster in Puppis constellation. It consists of four stars visible to the naked eye, and a widespread population of stars. It lies in the southern Celestial hemisphere near rich ...

Gum Nebula

The Gum Nebula is an emission nebula that extends across 36° in the southern constellations Vela and Puppis. It lies roughly 350 parsecs from the Earth. Hard to distinguish, it was widely believed to be the greatly expanded remains of a supernova ...

HD 41742/41700

HD 41742/41700 is a star system that lies approximately 87 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis. The system consists of two bright stars where the primary is orbited by two fainter stars, making it a quadruple with an unequal hierarchy.

HD 44594

HD 44594 is a star in the southern constellation Puppis. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.64, so it can be seen with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere under good viewing conditions. Based upon parallax measurements, it is located ...

HD 48265 b

HD 48265 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 293 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis, orbiting the 8th magnitude G-type main sequence star HD 48265. This planet has a minimum mass of 1.47 times that of Jupiter. Because the ...

HD 49798

HD 49798 is binary star in the constellation Puppis about 650 parsecs from Earth. It has an apparent magnitude of 8.3. HD 49798 was discovered in 1964 to be a rare hydrogen-deficient subdwarf o class. It was identified as a double star, but the c ...

HD 50235

HD 50235 is a class K5III star located approximately 811 light years away, in the constellation Puppis. Its apparent magnitude is 4.99. HD 50235 made its closest approach to the Sun 7.8 million years ago, at the distance of 137 light years, durin ...