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The Lynx is quite a large constellation that looks nothing at all like a lynx. Back in the seventeenth century, when astronomer Johannes Hevelius decided there needed to be a constellation between Ursa Major and Gemini, and began to study the area, he stated, "anyone who wants to study the stars here should have eyes like a lynx," and the name stuck.
Some like to see the constellation as a trail of little paw prints across the sky, like the tracks of a lynx in the snow, and as it turns out, there is a spiral galaxy within the constellation that really does look like a paw print. It's called the Bear Paw Galaxy, NGC 2537, and is pictured below.
There is also a globular cluster, NGC 2419, shown below. It is known as The Intergalactic Wanderer, because it is the farthest globular cluster in the galaxy. Some even class it as an extragalactic object. Almost all the other globular clusters in our galaxy are within 65,000 lightyears, but NGC 2419 is 210,000 light years away.
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