Set sail on a cosmic sailboat ⛵ In the constellation Vela, about 115 million light-years from Earth, lies this galaxy captured by NASAHubble. The outer edges of the galaxy almost resemble a ship’s sails blowing in a gentle breeze. The galaxy's appearance is just a splash of the nautical theme that carries throughout its constellation. Vela was originally part of a far larger constellation, Argo Navis, which is named after a fabled ship Argo from Greek mythology, but the constellation proved to be too large to study. Argo Navis was split into three chunks, each named after a part of the Argo ship: Carina (the keel), Puppis (the stern) and Vela (the sails). Credit: EuropeanSpaceAgency/Hubble & NASA, European Southern Observatory (ESO), R. J. Foley; Acknowledgment: R. Colombari #NASA #Hubble #SpaceTelescope #Stars #Cosmic #Astronomy #SeasTheDay