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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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Cygnus contains an unusual number of deeply colored stars and variable stars.
The temperature of Cygnus X-1 from Hawking radiation is roughly a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
The central nucleus he locates in the rich Galactic region of Cygnus, with the sun well outside the nucleus itself.
In 1876 a temporary star appeared in the constellation Cygnus, and attained at one time the brightness of the second magnitude.
A planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology has discovered the first extrasolar planet under three suns in the constellation Cygnus.
After a week's delay, Orbital Sciences Corp's Cygnus cargo ship puled in at the lab yesterday.

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