Vulpecula

American  

[vuhl-pek-yuh-luh] / vʌlˈpɛk yə lə /

noun

Astronomy.

genitive

Vulpeculae

1. the Little Fox, a northern constellation between Cygnus and Aquila.

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Vulpecula British  

/ vʌlˈpɛkjʊlə /

noun

1. a faint constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Cygnus and Aquila

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Etymology

Origin of Vulpecula

1865–70; < Latin vulpēcula, equivalent to vulpē ( s ) fox + -cula -cule ¹

Example Sentences

Eight billion light-years from Earth, in the darkness beyond the constellation Vulpecula, a black hole perhaps a billion times as massive as the sun seems to be gorging on a humongous cloud of gas.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

Soon after the telescope was completed in 1967, Bell Burnell noticed an unusual squiggle, what she called a piece of “scruff,” that she traced to the constellation Vulpecula.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

The ground-based image shows an elliptical galaxy called NGC 7052 located in the constellation of Vulpecula, almost 200 million light-years from Earth.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

What Bell had found, in the constellation of Vulpecula, was a source of rapid, sharp, intense, and extremely regular pulses of radio radiation.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The ‘Crab’ Nebula in Taurus, the ‘Horse-Shoe’ Nebula in Sobieski’s Shield, and the ‘Dumb-Bell’ Nebula in Vulpecula are remarkable objects, but the assistance of a powerful telescope is required to bring out their distinctive features.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel