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
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 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
Vulpecula, the Fox.—This modern constellation lies south of Cygnus, north of Sagitta and Delphinus, east of Hercules, and west of Pegasus.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
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