Fornax: A constellation in the southern sky named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. It represents a furnace and contains 59 stars visible to the naked eye.
Stars and planets: The brightest star is Alpha Fornacis, a binary system with a yellow-white subgiant and a blue straggler. Six star systems have exoplanets, including Lambda 2 Fornacis and HD 20868.
Galaxies and clusters: Fornax is home to the Fornax Dwarf galaxy, a satellite of the Milky Way, and the Fornax Cluster, a group of galaxies that includes NGC 1365, NGC 1316, and NGC 1399. Several ultra compact dwarf galaxies and a candidate protogalaxy have also been discovered in Fornax.
Deep sky objects: Fornax contains several globular clusters, planetary nebulae, and radio galaxies. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the deepest image of the universe ever taken, is located within Fornax. GRB 190114C, the brightest light ever seen from Earth, was detected in Fornax in 2019.
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