Vela
Vela is the Latin plural form for sails. The following are derived from this:
- a constellation, see sails of the ship
- a pulsar in this constellation, the Vela pulsar or PSR 0833-45
- the X-ray binary star Vela X-1 in this constellation
- a galaxy supercluster around 800 million light years away in the constellation of sails
- a US military project , see Vela project
- an American satellite series for monitoring aboveground atomic bomb tests, see Vela (satellite)
- a mysterious explosion over the South Atlantic, see Vela incident
- a container ship, see CMA CGM Vela
- a nunatak in West Antarctic Palmerland, see Vela Bluff
Vela denotes the places:
- Vela (Guarda) , municipality in Portugal
- Vela (Dolj) , municipality in Dolj County (Romania)
Vela is a family name for the following people:
- Alejandro Vela (* 1984), Mexican soccer player
- Ana Vela Rubio (1901–2017), Spanish age record holder
- Blasco Núñez de Vela (1490–1546), first viceroy of the Viceroyalty of Peru (1544–1546)
- Carlos Vela (* 1989), Mexican soccer player
- Carlos Zapata Vela (1906–1990), Mexican ambassador
- Filemon Vela junior (born 1963), American politician
- Francisco Vela (1859–1909), Guatemalan engineer and cartographer
- José Vela († 2004), Mexican football player and coach
- Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (* 1934), Ecuadorian clergyman, Archbishop of Quito, cardinal
- Rodolfo Neri Vela (* 1952), Mexican spaceman
- Vincenzo Vela (1820–1891), Swiss sculptor
VELA stands for:
- Very Efficient Large Aircraft , experimental aircraft
- Association of senior executives in Berlin before the First World War
See also:
