Sure, getting a Nobel Prize or a fat research grant is cool, but you know you've really made it when they name a whole constellation after you. Just ask Antoine Lavoisier, the 18th-century chemistry hotshot who scored the celestial honor of having Fornax, originally called Fornax Chemica (the chemical furnace), named after him.

Located in the southern celestial hemisphere, Fornax contains four stars - although only three of them are formally named: Dalim, Diya, and Intan. Dalim is 33% more massive than the Sun and is believed to be about 2.9 billion years old. Fornax was first identified by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756, after his trip to the Cape of Good Hope, where he observed the southern stars and constellations