However, Pyxis is not considered part of Argo Navis, and its Bayer designations are separate from those of Carina, Puppis and Vela.

Antlia is bordered by Hydra the sea snake, Pyxis the compass, Vela the sails, and Centaurus the centaur.

( Constellations with no alpha include Vela and Puppis, both formerly part of Argo Navis whose alpha is Canopus in Carina.

* 1979 – The Vela Incident ( also known as the South Atlantic Flash ) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

Vela is a constellation in the southern sky.

Of the deep-sky objects of interest in Vela is a planetary nebula known as the NGC 3132 ( nicknamed Eight-burst Nebula ).

Also of interest is the Vela Supernova Remnant.

NGC 2670 is an open cluster located in Vela.

** A 5. 3 Kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Vela Uniform program.

** An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island, Alaska as part of the Vela Uniform program, code-named Project Long Shot.

These studies are part of a seismic research program called Vela Uniform which is designed to improve the United States ' capability to detect, identify, and locate underground nuclear detonations.

Laguna Seca Ranch is still owned by the Vela family.

There is a small marina ( Circolo della Vela Marciana Marina ), two small beaches and an old Torre Medicea, built to protect the city in the past from the frequent pirate invasion.

Israel is widely thought to possess a sizable nuclear arsenal, though it has never tested, unless they were involved in Vela.

Of these, the only one taken seriously as a possible nuclear test is the Vela Incident, a possible detection of a nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean in 1979.

*** Vela Incident, an international incident, in which a Vela satellite is thought to possibly have observed a nuclear test

The name of the southernmost point on Vela Kurka ( Mendo ) is connected with this almost extinct species.

Jet Force Gemini is composed of three main characters: Juno, a taciturn, somewhat melancholy human male whose parents were killed by space pirates that invaded his home station ; Vela, Juno's feisty twin sister ; and Lupus, Jet Force Gemini's wardog mascot.

It is established at the south of the Paraguaná Peninsula in a coastal plain, flanked by the Médanos de Coro National Park to the north and the sierra de Coro to the south, at a few kilometers from its port ( La Vela de Coro ) in the Caribbean Sea at a point equidistant between the Ensenada de La Vela and Golfete de Coro.

The events prior to the war of Independence in 1806, landed in its port of La Vela de Coro the liberating expedition led by Francisco de Miranda, the precursor of Spanish American wars of independence would bring the tricolor that after the years end up adopting the Gran Colombia, which is now the basis for the official flag of three American republics, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.

For these reasons it is declared, along with its nearby port of La Vela de Coro, a World Heritage Site on December 9 of 1993 by Unesco in meeting held in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias.

The main road runs along the spine of the island connecting all settlements from Lumbarda on the eastern to Vela Luka on the western end, with the exception of Račišċe which is served by a separate road running along the northern coast.

for " HH 47: A Young Star Jet Expands " located in Vela.

By 1878 Carlota Vela at the Laguna Seca Ranch had a small orange grove that was known for the quality of its fruit.

* Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie ( 1981 )-Art Vela

The Alliance hastily sent a secret scientific mission to study the relics, but a massive Hierarchy's offensive forced the Alliance fleets to retreat beyond Vela ; the mission commander, Captain Burton, decided to go into hiding on the planet and sent back the Tobermoon, her only starship, asking for help.

America's Cup Management announced on 5 July 2007 that the protocol for the 2010 America's Cup had been agreed between the defending yacht club, Société Nautique de Genève of Switzerland and Challenger of Record, the Club Náutico Español de Vela of Spain.

In July 2007, the Golden Gate Yacht Club, sponsoring BMW Oracle Racing, filed a challenge with the Société Nautique de Genève for the 33rd America's Cup stating that they did not believe that SNG's hand picked challenger, Club Náutico Español de Vela ( CNEV ) was a qualified club under the Deed of Gift.

* Carlos Vela, a Mexican footballer, playing for Real Sociedad

The most important places on the Kornati islands are: the shallow channel Mala Proversa, the oval-shaped Taljurič island, Špinuta Bay, Stivina Bay, the fourth largest island Levrnaka, the second largest karst rock-area Tarac, Svršata Vela island, Mana island, Piškera island, Panitula Vela island, the picturesque Lavsa Bay, the resort island Ravni Žakan, Smokvica Vela island, the Opat peninsula, Samograd island, the Purara reserve for marine life, Vrgada and Gangarol islands.

When Blasco Núñez Vela, the first viceroy of Peru, tried to enforce the New Laws, which provided for the gradual abolition of the encomienda, many of the Encomenderos were unwilling to comply with them and revolted against Núñez Vela.

On the other hand, players can take control of any and all three characters as they progress though the game, using their individual and unshared strengths where required ; Juno can walk through magma safely, Vela can swim underwater indefinitely, and Lupus can hover for a short period of time.

The family received the Province of Venezuela ( as Klein-Venedig ) from the Spanish crown for exploration, founding cities and exploitation of the resources of this vast territory that stretched from Cabo de la Vela ( Guajira Peninsula ) to Maracapana ( near the city of Barcelona, Anzoátegui ).

It was then in the port of La Vela de Coro, which was raised for the first in Venezuela.

Uhuru achieved several outstanding scientific advances, including the discovery and detailed study of the pulsing accretion-powered binary X-Ray sources such as Cen X-3, Vela X-1, and Her X-1, the identification of Cygnus X-1, the first strong candidate for an astrophysical black hole, and many important extragalactic sources.

The finds of Vela Spila are on display at the Center for Culture in Vela Luka.

However, there are some well known poorams, such as Aryankavu Pooram near Shoranur and Machattu Thiruvanikavu Vela near Wadakkanchery that do not use the caparisoned elephant, instead go for stilted mannequins of horses or bullocks.

* Interview with Rodolfo Neri Vela for Mexican TV ( Spanish )

Vela is short for velador, meaning " watchman " in Spanish.

The Vela 5B satellite X-ray detector remained functional for over ten years.

Data from the Vela 6 satellites were used to look for correlations between gamma-ray bursts and X-ray events.