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Pictor

Pictor: A faint constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, named after a painter's easel by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century.
Stars: Pictor contains several notable stars, such as Alpha Pictoris, a rapidly spinning white star with a circumstellar gas shell; Beta Pictoris, a young star with a debris disk and an exoplanet; and Kapteyn's Star, a nearby red dwarf with two super-Earths, one of which is potentially habitable.
Variable stars: Pictor also hosts RR Pictoris, a cataclysmic variable that flared up as a nova in 1925, and Delta Pictoris, an eclipsing binary of two blue stars.
Galaxies and other objects: Pictor has several interesting extragalactic objects, such as NGC 1705, an irregular dwarf galaxy with active star formation; Pictor A, a radio galaxy with a jet of plasma; and GRB 060729, a gamma-ray burst with a long X-ray afterglow.
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