[quote=" http://www.universetoday.com/29223/bridge-between-the-stars-ngc-602-hubble-visualization-by-jukka-metsavainio/"]
[float=left][img3="[b][color=#FF0000][size=125]Master Yo throwing Foo-Pies.[/size]
[i]"Foo Pih" (γ Hyi) is only star in Hydrus
that anyone seems to have named.[/i][/color][/b]"]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080709091823/yinyangyo/images/thumb/6/60/Pie.PNG/150px-Pie.PNG[/img3][/float]Bridge Between the Stars – NGC 602: Hubble Visualization by Jukka Metsavainio
by Tammy Plotner on April 16, 2009
<<Another interesting factor is [b][color=#AF00AF]NGC 602′s position in the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud leading to the "Magellanic Bridge" – a stream of neutral hydrogen which connects the two Magellanic Clouds like a invisible cord.[/color][/b] While it’s mostly comprised of low-metallicity gas there have been two early-type stars found inside it. The Magellanic Bridge is also a favored region for investigations of interstellar gas and star formation in very low metallicity region… Much like the home of our bright young cluster. Why is this so fascinating? Because studying star formation in regions like this gives astronomers a look at what may happen during galaxy formation – long before heavier elements are created from successive generations of stars undergoing nuclear fusion.>>[/quote][quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrus"]
[float=right][img3="[b][color=#AF00AF][size=135]The "Magellanic Bridge" stream of neutral hydrogen
connects the Small Magellanic Cloud “Nubecula Minor”
with the Large Magellanic Cloud "Nubecula Major"
approximately where the name "HYDRUS" is printed
by Johann Bode in his Uranographia (1801)[/size][/color][/b]"]http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/image/hydrus.JPG[/img3][/float]
<<[b][color=#0000FF]Hydrus is a small constellation in the southern sky, created in the sixteenth century. Its name means "male water snake", and it should not be confused with Hydra, a much larger constellation which represents a female water snake.[/color][/b] Hydrus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. The companion to Hydra, the female water snake, he is forced to journey through Eridanus, Orion, and the Milky Way to visit his lover.
Hydra does not contain any particularly bright stars. Beta Hydri, the brightest star in Hydrus, is a yellow star of magnitude 2.8, 24 light-years from Earth. Alpha Hydri is a white main-sequence star of magnitude 2.9, 71 light-years from Earth. [b][color=#FF0000]Gamma Hydri "Foo Pih" is a red giant of magnitude 3.2, 214 light-years from Earth. There is one notable double star in Hydrus. Pi Hydri, composed of Pi1 Hydri and Pi2 Hydri, is divisible in binoculars. Pi1 is a red star of magnitude 5.6, 740 light-years from Earth. Pi2 is an orange star of magnitude 5.7, 468 light-years from Earth.[/color][/b]
In August 2010, a European astronomical team working at the La Silla Observatory in Chile announced that they had confirmed the presence of at least [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20762&p=130445&hilit=hydrus#p130445]five planets orbiting the star HD 10180[/url] in Hydrus.[/quote]