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Caelum is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Latin for "chisel", it is the eighth-smallest constellation, measuring around 0.038 steradians, just smaller than Corona Australis. Caelum is a rather barren constellation with few objects of interest, due to its small size and location away from the plane of the Milky Way. The constellation's brightest star, Alpha Caeli, is only of magnitude 4.45, and only one other star (Gamma¹ Caeli) is brighter than magnitude 5. Other notable objects in Caelum are RR Caeli, a binary star with one planet approximately 20.13 parsecs (65.7 ly) away; X Caeli, a Delta Scuti variable that forms an optical double with Gamma¹ Caeli; and HE0450-2958, a Seyfert galaxy (pictured) that at first appeared as just a jet, with no host galaxy visible. The source of the jet was once suggested to be a supermassive black hole, but is now agreed to be a small galaxy that is partially obscured by light from the jet and a nearby starburst galaxy. (Full article...)

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... that Qian Xiuling (pictured) interceded with the German General Falkenhausen to save nearly a hundred Belgians from execution?
... that in 2007, the tiny hydrozoan jellyfish Muggiaea atlantica killed 100,000 farmed salmon in Norway?
... that Vishal Bhardwaj won two National Film Awards for writing and composing the music for the film Haider (2014), which he also directed and co-produced?
... that yacht designer Tom Fexas worked on the Ohio-class submarines earlier in his career?
... that Kazi Nazrul Islam was arrested by the Bengal Presidency police in 1923 for publishing an anti-British poem in his Dhumketu biweekly?
... that the Vrmac Fortress was the centrepiece of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's defences around Kotor in Montenegro?
... that in 1950 Ronnie Fraser stood as a candidate for the UK Parliament, even though he was too young to vote in that election?

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The L0 Series maglev train breaks the world speed record and becomes the first train to run at more than 600 km/h (375 mph).
At the Boston Marathon, Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa (pictured) wins the men's race and Kenyan Caroline Rotich wins the women's race.
China and Pakistan announce the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, a $46 billion project to connect Gwadar Port in Pakistan to Xinjiang in China.
More than 1,100 people are feared dead after multiple ships carrying migrants capsize off Libya in separate incidents.
Nokia agrees to buy telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion (US$16.6 billion).

Ongoing: Yemeni Civil War – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths: Surya Bahadur Thapa

April 23: St George's Day in various countries; Yom Ha'atzmaut in Israel (2015); Children's Day in Turkey

1348 – The first-ever appointments to the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were announced.
1661 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland, and Scotland was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1918 – First World War: The British Royal Navy conducted a raid on the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge
1985 – The Coca-Cola Company introduced "New Coke" (pictured) to replace its flagship soft drink Coca-Cola, which generated so much negative response that the company put the previous formula back on the market less than three months later.
2009 – Gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected, coming from the most distant known astronomical object of any kind at the time.

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A longhorn beetle of the subfamily Cerambycinae exhibiting cryptic coloration, as photographed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This subfamily is widely distributed, with over 716 genera, consisting of 3,889 species, worldwide.

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