Lynx (constellation)
Lynx is a
constellation of the
northern hemisphere, introduced in the
17th century by
Johannes Hevelius. Its name originates from the fact that someone would need the eyes of a
lynx to see it. Its most notable
deep sky object is the Intergalactic Tramp NGC 2419, a
globular cluster that is the most distant known of its kind. It is moving faster than
escape velocity at that distance; however, it appears to be in a long elliptical
orbit around our
galaxy, the
Milky Way, and is thus not expected to escape.
