Vulpecula
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Vulpecula is a faint constellation in the Northern Sky. Its name is Latin for "little fox", although it is commonly called simply the Fox. It was identified in the 17th century, and is located in the
The constellation Vulpecula as it can be seen by the naked eye
The constellation Vulpecula with IAU boundaries and stick figure overlaid, from NOIRLab's 88 Constellations project
The Dumbbell Nebula
Planetary nebula Hen 2-437 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula.
PSR B1919+21
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PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 seconds. Discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on 28 November 1967, it is the first-discovered radio pulsar. The power a
Vulpecula
…23 Vulpeculae is the second-brightest star in the constellation. In 1967, the first pulsar, PSR B1919+21, was discovered in Vulpecula by Jocelyn Bell, supervised by Antony Hewish, in Cambridge. While they were searching for scintillation of radio signals…
Chart on which Jocelyn Bell Burnell first recognised evidence of PSR B1919+21, exhibited at Cambridge University Library