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    Cygnus is a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan. Cygnus is one of the most recognizable...
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    Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole...
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  • up Cygnus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cygnus is the Latin word for swan and may refer to: Cygnus (constellation), a northern constellation Cygnus...
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    Cygnus A (3C 405) is a radio galaxy, one of the strongest radio sources in the sky. A concentrated radio source in Cygnus was discovered by Grote Reber...
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  • list of notable stars in the constellation of Cygnus, sorted by decreasing apparent magnitude. List of stars by constellation ESA (1997). "The Hipparcos...
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    The Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103) is a large supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly...
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    Veil Nebula (category Cygnus (constellation))
    heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions...
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    North America Nebula (category Cygnus (constellation))
    America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). It...
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    commercial aviation and aeronautics industry. Cygnus is the Latinized Greek word for swan and a northern constellation. With Rocketplane Kistler unable to meet...
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    Northern Cross (asterism) (category Cygnus (constellation))
    closely with the constellation Cygnus the swan. It is much larger than the Southern Cross and consists of the brightest stars in Cygnus: Deneb, Sadr, Gienah...
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    Cygnus OB2 #12 is an extremely luminous blue hypergiant with an absolute bolometric magnitude (all electromagnetic radiation) of −10.9, among the most...
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    Deneb (category Cygnus (constellation))
    Deneb (/ˈdɛnɛb/) is a first-magnitude star in the constellation of Cygnus. Deneb is one of the vertices of the asterism known as the Summer Triangle and...
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  • According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Cygnus is located within the northern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as...
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    Kepler-452b (category Cygnus (constellation))
    is located about 1,400 light-years (430 pc) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. Kepler-452b orbits its star at a distance of 1.04 AU (156 million km;...
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    abbreviated Epsilon Cyg, ε Cyg) is multiple star system in the constellation of Cygnus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 2.48, it is readily visible...
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    wavelengths. The region is approximately 1,570 parsecs from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The young cluster is one of the largest known and the largest...
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    Kepler-22b (category Cygnus (constellation))
    located about 640 light-years (200 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in December...
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  • passionate and devoted to his ideals. As a Saint born under the Cygnus constellation, Hyoga is able to control and manipulate ice and snow as he pleases...
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    Albireo (category Cygnus (constellation))
    Epsilon Cygni and is the fifth-brightest point of light in the constellation of Cygnus. Appearing to the naked eye to be a single star of magnitude 3...
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    Kepler-69c (category Cygnus (constellation))
    Kepler-69c (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-172.02) is a confirmed super-Earth extrasolar planet, likely rocky, orbiting the...
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    Crescent Nebula (category Cygnus (constellation))
    NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by William...
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    SPECULOOS-3 (category Cygnus (constellation))
    (spectral type M6.5) located 54.6 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It is one of the smallest known stars, and is much cooler, dimmer...
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    Messier 29 (category Cygnus (constellation))
    of the central bright star Gamma Cygni of a northerly zone of the sky, Cygnus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, and can be seen from Earth...
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    Kepler-16b (category Cygnus (constellation))
    Kepler-16b (formally Kepler-16 (AB)-b) is an exoplanet. It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice, and it orbits a binary...
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    Sadr Region (category Cygnus (constellation))
    region (right bright part) in the Cygnus X region, visually interrupted by the Cygnus rift, of the constellation Cygnus, in this X-ray image. Butterfly...
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  • Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB), one of the stronger binary X-ray sources in the sky. It is often considered to be a microquasar, and it...
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  • Kepler-22 (category Cygnus (constellation))
    Kepler-22 is a Sun-like star in the northern constellation of Cygnus, the swan, that is orbited by a planet found to be unequivocally within the star's...
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  • Cygnus X-1 is an X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus. Cygnus X-1 may also refer to: "Cygnus X-1" (song series), a two-part song by the band Rush "Cygnus...
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    Cygnus-X is a massive star formation region located in the constellation of Cygnus at a distance from the Sun of 1.4 kiloparsecs (4,600 light years). As...
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    Messier 39 (category Cygnus (constellation))
    M39, also known as NGC 7092, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Cygnus, positioned two degrees to the south of the star Pi Cygni and around...
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