Canes Venatici (pronounced KAY-neez ven-ah-TEE-see) is one of seven constellations still in use that Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius invented. In 1690, it was included in the star atlas ...

The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety of deep-sky objects — including this beautiful galaxy, known as NGC 4861. Astronomers are still debating on ...

Besides the big and little dogs (Canis Major and Canis Minor) there’s another pair of hounds in the night sky called Canes Venatici. Let’s pronounce that once — KAY-neez veh-NA-teh-si. It rhymes with ...

Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242, shown here as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy lies some 30 million ...

A spectroscopic observation was made of a ring-shaped object in Canes Venatici. A bright knot at the edge of the ring has a recession velocity of 10,960 ± 30 km s⁻¹ and so is confirmed as an ...

Two dim dwarf galaxies are the Milky Way's newest-known galactic companions, astronomers studying a vast swath of the sky reported on Monday. This brings the total number of dwarf galaxies in the ...

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This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the spiral galaxy NGC 4248, located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

Soaring high in the eastern sky and almost overhead at around midnight are the two stars marking the Hunting Dogs, known as Canes Venatici. Located about a third of the way from the end of the Big ...