Sextans

[sek-stuhnz]

noun

genitive

Sextantis 

1. Astronomy.,  the Sextant, an equatorial constellation between Hydra and Leo.

2. (lowercase),  a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the sixth part of an as, issued during the period of the Republic.

Sextans

/ ˈsɛkstənz /

noun

1. a faint constellation lying on the celestial equator close to Leo and Hydra

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sextans¹

< Latin sextāns; sextant

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sextans¹

New Latin: _sextant

Example Sentences

In the Sextans constellation 4,500 light-years away, a dead, magnetic star rotates 592 times in a second, emanating electromagnetic beams like an oscillating lighthouse out into the universe.

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Researchers in Japan observed a distant source of light known as B14-65666, located in the constellation known as Sextans, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile.

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The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal was the 10th galaxy found to orbit the Milky Way.

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A dwarf spheroidal flagged in 1990 in the constellation Sextans was such a galactic underdog it took a computer to spot it.

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Without one, “there’s no way Sextans would have been found,” Mike Irwin, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, has said.

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