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Chamaeleon

[ kuh-mee-lee-uhn, -meel-yuhn ]

noun

Astronomy.
genitive Chamaeleontis
  1. a small southern constellation between Musca and Hydrus.


Chamaeleon

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noun

  1. a faint constellation lying between Volans and the South celestial pole
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Origin of Chamaeleon1

From Latin
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The star is among the most massive and brightest in the Chamaeleon Complex, a nebula some 500 light-years away.

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Its name is HD 97300 and it’s one of the youngest—but also the most massive and brightest—stars in the Chamaeleon Complex, a cloudy incubator of stars 500 light-years away.

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The chief genus is Chamaeleon, containing most of the fifty to sixty species of the whole group, and with the most extensive range, all through Africa and Madagascar into Arabia, southern India and Ceylon.

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But the vision dissolves before historical truth; and Chamaeleon, and Hermesianax, who are the source of the supposition, are considered as having merely indulged in a poetical anachronism.

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The star is among the most massive and brightest in the Chamaeleon Complex, a nebula some 500 light-years away.

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