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Vela or Velas may refer to:

Contents

• Astronomy
• Places
• Ships
• Technology
• People
• Given name
• Surname
• Other uses
• See also

Astronomy

• Vela (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky (the Sails)
  • Vela (Chinese astronomy)
  • Vela Pulsar
  • Vela X-1, a pulsing, eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary system

Places

• Vela Bluff, Antarctica
• Vela, Dolj, Romania
• Vela (Ilidža – Sarajevo), Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Velas, Maharashtra, India

Ships

• CMA CGM Vela , a container ship in service since 2008
• USNS Vela (T-AK-89), US Army port repair ship
• Vela-class submarine, of the Indian Navy
  • INS Vela (S40), in service 1973–2010

Technology

• Project Vela, a system developed by the United States to monitor compliance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty
  • Vela (satellite), a series of satellites launched by the United States to monitor nuclear testing
    • Vela incident, an international incident, in which a Vela satellite is thought to possibly have observed a nuclear test
• Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA), a data logging tool used in education

People

Other uses

• Nemmara Vallangi Vela, an annual festival of a village called Nemmara in South India
• Vela International Marine, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco
• Vela, a playable character in the video game Jet Force Gemini
• Vela, a religious, cultural celebration from the city of Tehuantepec, Mexico
• Vela, an alternative appellation for Mokosh, the consort of the Slavic god of thunder
• Vela, a genus of land crabs in the family Gecarcinucidae
• Vela (film), a 2023 Indian crime drama

See also

• Vella (disambiguation)
• Velan (disambiguation)
• Vala (disambiguation)
• Velar (disambiguation)
• Velar (caste), a caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
• Velas, Azores
• Velada, Spain

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