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Vulpecula cum Ansere, Latin for "the little fox with the goose," is a former constellation introduced by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. It was depicted as a fox carrying a goose in its jaws, occupying a faint region of the northern sky. The constellation was later simplified to just Vu...
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Musca Australis, meaning the Southern Fly, is the former name of the modern constellation Musca. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille used the name in eighteenth-century astronomical work, and later usage shortened it to Musca. The constellation lies in the southern sky near Chamaeleon and Crux and is represen...
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