Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the celestial Northern Hemisphere near Cygnus and Sagitta.
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- proper noun astronomy A faint
autumn constellation in thenorthern sky.
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- noun a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Sagitta
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vulpecula, which is a constellation 17,000 light years from Earth.
Neoseeker News Feed 2010
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Last weekend, I attended Con*Stellation XXVIII: Vulpecula, a small-but-sincere convention in Huntsville, Alabama.
Archive 2009-09-01 Lou Anders 2009
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Also in Vulpecula is the Coathanger or Brocchi's Cluster whose binocular-brightness stars are arranged in the form of an inverted coathanger.
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Another planetary nebula, M27 or the Dumbbell, is an easier binocular object in the dim constellation of Vulpecula the Fox to the SE, and just above Sagitta the Arrow.
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Last weekend, I attended Con*Stellation XXVIII: Vulpecula, a small-but-sincere convention in Huntsville, Alabama.
Con*Stellation XXVIII: Vulpecula Lou Anders 2009
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However, you get only half marks for Maximillian WOLF (Vulpecula) – Vulpecula is 'Fox'; Lupus is 'Wolf'; and no marks for Charles Augustione de COLUMBO (you mean Charles Augustin de Coulomb; the constellation Columba, the Dove, is not related to Coulomb).
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Maximillian WOLF Vulpecula – Responsible for the discovery of hundreds of Asteroids through photography
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On Aug. 11, 2007, Mark Swain from JPL and his team turned the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility – a 3-meter telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, — to the hot, Jupiter-size planet HD 189733b in the constellation Vulpecula.
New Technique to Find Earth-like Exoplanets | Universe Today 2010
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The planet, HD 189733b, now known to have methane and water vapour is located 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula, the little fox.
Methane in space Bente Lilja Bye 2008
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Maximillian WOLF Vulpecula – Respobsilbe for the discovery of hundreds of Asteroids through photgraphy
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