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  • proper noun astronomy A summer asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a cross. It includes the stars Deneb and Albireo.

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  • noun a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus

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Examples

  • What makes this so striking is the satellite's instruments always point at the same tiny arc of the Milky Way near the constellation called the Northern Cross - only one four-hundredth of the sky.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • Finally, Deborah Bogen's Let Me Open You A Swan -- her second book -- "nourishes the reader" yet creates a sense of boldness and audacity -- something "sacred" is sacrificed here, under the constellation Cygnus, or Swan, once called the Northern Cross.

    Carol Muske-Dukes: The Accidental Adult and Other Poetry Book Reviews 2010

  • Finally, Deborah Bogen's Let Me Open You A Swan -- her second book -- "nourishes the reader" yet creates a sense of boldness and audacity -- something "sacred" is sacrificed here, under the constellation Cygnus, or Swan, once called the Northern Cross.

    Carol Muske-Dukes: The Accidental Adult and Other Poetry Book Reviews 2010

  • Sometimes folks refer to this constellation as the Northern Cross because of its shape.

    Kid's Astronomy: Celestial Birds Migrate West? | Universe Today 2009

  • I could hardly believe that I had been able to conquer the Northern Cross.

    Riding the Northern Cross Michael Turton 2009

  • I could hardly believe that I had been able to conquer the Northern Cross.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • Rank with the continuing series in great Taiwan bike rides: the Northern Cross island highway.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • I showed them the constellations I learned the other week when I was at the McDonald Observatory Star party Casseiopeia, Cepheus, Northern Cross, etc and also the Milky Way and later I even showed mom and Skip.

    Thanksgiving! WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

  • I showed them the constellations I learned the other week when I was at the McDonald Observatory Star party Casseiopeia, Cepheus, Northern Cross, etc and also the Milky Way and later I even showed mom and Skip.

    Archive 2006-11-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

  • Skan nodded; his great golden eyes fixed upon her as steadily as if he were the needle of a compass, and she were the Northern Cross.

    The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

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