Editing Pyxis (section)

===Deep sky objects===
[[File:NGC 2818 by the Hubble Space Telescope.jpg|thumb|right|The planetary nebula NGC 2818, imaged by the Hubble telescope|alt=A coloured oval cloud of material against a dark background]]
Pyxis lies in the [[Galactic plane|plane]] of the [[Milky Way]], although part of the eastern edge is dark, with material obscuring our galaxy arm there. [[NGC 2818]] is a [[planetary nebula]] that lies within a dim [[open cluster]] of magnitude 8.2.<ref>{{cite book |last=Inglis |first=Mike |title=Astronomy of the Milky Way: Observer's Guide to the Southern Sky |publisher=Springer |location=New York, New York |date=2004 |isbn=1-85233-742-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1r0qvMjSCGAC&pg=SA3-PA31}}</ref> [[NGC 2818A]] is an [[open cluster]] that lies on line of sight with it.<ref name=inglisOC/> [[K 1-2]] is a planetary nebula whose central star is a [[spectroscopic binary]] composed of two stars in close orbit with [[Astrophysical jet|jets]] emanating from the system. The surface temperature of one component has been estimated at as high as 85,000&nbsp;K.<ref name="Exter 2003">{{cite journal |title=The planetary nebula K 1-2 and its binary central star VW Pyx |author1=Exter, K. M. |author2=Pollacco, D. L. |author3=Bell, S. A. |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=341 |issue=4 |pages=1349–59 |year=2003 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06505.x |bibcode=2003MNRAS.341.1349E|url=https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/341/4/1349/3501479/341-4-1349.pdf |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[NGC 2627]] is an [[open cluster]] of magnitude 8.4 that is visible in binoculars.<ref name="inglisOC">{{cite book |last=Inglis |first=Mike |title=Observer's Guide to Star Clusters |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |location=New York, New York |date=2013 |pages=202–03 |isbn=978-1-4614-7567-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewHABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA202}}</ref>

Discovered in 1995,<ref name="Irwin 1995">{{cite journal |title=The PYXIS Cluster: A Newly Identified Galactic Globular Cluster |author1=Irwin, M. J. |author2=Demers, Serge |author3=Kunkel, W. E. |journal=Astrophysical Journal Letters |volume=453 |page=L21 |year=1995 |doi=10.1086/513301 |bibcode=1995ApJ...453L..21I|doi-access=free }}</ref> the [[Pyxis globular cluster]] is a 13.3 ± 1.3 billion year-old [[globular cluster]] situated around 130,000 light-years distant from Earth and around 133,000 light-years distant from the centre of the Milky Way—a region not previously thought to contain globular clusters.<ref name="1996AJ....112.2013S">{{cite journal |title=Deep Photometry of the Outer Halo Globular Cluster in PYXIS |author1=Sarajedini, Ata |author2=Geisler, Doug |journal=Astronomical Journal |volume=112 |year=1996 |page=2013 |doi=10.1086/118159 |bibcode=1996AJ....112.2013S|doi-access=free }}</ref> Located in the [[galactic halo]], it was noted to lie on the same plane as the [[Large Magellanic Cloud]] and the possibility has been raised that it might be an escaped object from that galaxy.<ref name="Irwin 1995"/>

[[NGC 2613]] is a spiral galaxy of magnitude 10.5 which appears spindle-shaped as it is almost edge-on to observers on Earth.<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen James |last=O'Meara |title=Steve O'Meara's Herschel 400 Observing Guide |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-521-85893-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nyh9fAC_tpIC&pg=PA82}}</ref> [[Henize 2-10]] is a dwarf galaxy which lies 30 million light-years away. It has a black hole of around a million solar masses at its centre. Known as a [[starburst galaxy]] due to very high rates of star formation, it has a bluish colour due to the huge numbers of young stars within it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Henize 2–10: A Surprisingly Close Look at the Early Cosmos |work=Chandra X-Ray Observatory |publisher=NASA |url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/he210/ |access-date=6 October 2012}}</ref>