Carina constellation is located in the southern skies. The name means “the keel”, keel of a ship, in Latin.
This is the 34th largest constellation in the sky, filling up an area of 494 square degrees.
Carina is composed of 11 stars (five are named) with known planets and contains no messier objects. The brightest star in the constellation is Canopus, Alpha Carinae.
This constellation was originally a part of the much larger Argo Navis, which represented the ship Argo.