[4] QU Vulpeculae declined from peak brightness quite rapidly, and had faded by 3 magnitudes in just 40 days, so it is classified as a "fast" nova.

[6] A few months after the nova eruption, infrared spectroscopy revealed extremely strong emission in the 12.8 micron forbidden transition of singly ionized neon.

[10] In the summer of 1985, QU Vulpeculae was detected in all four of the observing bands (1.49, 4.89, 14.94 and 22.46 GHz) available at that time at the Very Large Array.

It was the first nova that was imaged shortly after its outburst in the radio regime, and multi-epoch observations showed that the ejecta was expanding.

[11] QU Vulpeculae is surrounded by a nova remnant, a planetary nebula-like shell of the material that was ejected during its outburst.