Microscopium
mic·ros·co·pium
noun
1.
a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Sagittarius and Capricornus
Origin
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763, from later Latin microscopium (“microscope”).
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