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What does Cygnus mean?

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  1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo.
  2. (Greek) A king of the Ligurians and relative of Phaeton who was transformed into a swan and placed in the sky as a constellation.
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A planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology has discovered the first extrasolar planet under three suns in the constellation Cygnus.
Just as Deneb is in the tail of Cygnus the Swan in our summer sky, so Denebola, further E, is the tail of Leo.
Cygnus melanocorypha was still declining in Uruguay and Chile, despite evidence of an increase in breeding numbers in the latter.
In the film, set in 2130, the spaceship USS Palomino discovers another ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering on the edge of a black hole.
The temperature of Cygnus X-1 from Hawking radiation is roughly a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
In 1876 a temporary star appeared in the constellation Cygnus, and attained at one time the brightness of the second magnitude.

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