Calle de la Estrella Naos

Look at the ground on this corner of Delicias and you are standing on a star. Naos is the brightest in the constellation of Puppis, the stern of the Argo, the mythological ship that carried Jason in search of the Golden Fleece. The name comes from the Greek naûs, “ship”: Naos is, literally, “the one of the ship.” The star earns its fame. It is a blue supergiant burning at some 42,000 degrees at the surface, spinning a hundred times faster than the Sun and shining with the force of hundreds of thousands of suns. Sooner or later it will explode as a supernova. The street belongs to a small firmament traced over the asphalt. In this corner of Delicias, alongside streets like Calle de las Nebulosas and Calle de la Estrella Denebola, the names pay tribute to the sky, in tune with the Madrid Planetarium that opened nearby, in Tierno Galván park, in 1986.