Vulpecula
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Vulpecula
1865–70; < Latin vulpēcula, equivalent to vulpē ( s ) fox + -cula -cule 1
Example Sentences
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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
Flamsteed's star, No. 11 of Vulpecula, has been supposed to be identical with Anthelm's star, but Baily could not find that such a star exists.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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