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Constellation of the southern hemisphere near
Carina or the Keel, represented as the sails
of a ship. It contains large wisps of gas
(called the Gum nebula after its discoverer),
believed to be the remains of one or more
supernovae. Vela also contains the second
optical pulsar (a pulsar that flashes at a
visible wavelength) to be discovered. Its
four brightest stars are second-magnitude,
one of them being Suhail, about 490 light
years from Earth.