Constellations · Constellation · Pyxidis · Pyx
Constellation
Pyxis
The mariner’s compass, set by Lacaille beside the pieces of the old ship Argo, as if the ship had lost it.
- Genitive
- Pyxidis
- Area
- 221 square degrees · 65th of 88
- Brightest star
- · magnitude 3.68
- Naked-eye stars
- 43 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- late January
Science
T Pyxidis, a recurrent nova, erupts every few decades — last in 2011 — and may one day become a supernova that destroys the whole star.