Musca (fly) is a small constellation in the deep southern sky.

It was one of twelve constellations In the new

created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de
Houtman, first appearing on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe by Plancius and Jodocus
Hondiuspublished in 1597 or 1598 in Amsterdam. The first depiction in a celestial atlas was
in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Musca remains below the horizon for most Northern
Hemisphere observers. Many of the constellation's brighter stars are in the Scorpius–Centaurus
Association, hot blue-white stars that appear to share a common origin and motion across
the Milky Way. These include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Zeta2 and (likely) Eta Muscae, as well as HD
100546, a blue-white Herbig Ae/Be star that is surrounded by a complex debris disk containing a
large planet or brown dwarf and possible protoplanet. Two further star systems have been found
to have planets. The constellation also contains two Cepheid variables visible to the naked
eye. Theta Muscae is a triple star system, the brightest member of which is a Wolf–Rayet star. Juan Orlando H
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