cygnus

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(Isn't there some cygnus Latin cognate in there, as in "swan"?)

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  1. A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.

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  1. a genus of Anatidae
  2. a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; contains a black hole

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  • (Isn't there some cygnus Latin cognate in there, as in "swan"?) —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • Submitted by cygnus on Fri, 2008-10-24 21: 34. —  Corrente
  • Chasmma, _Wlk_. pavo, _Wlk_. cygnus, _Wlk_. —  Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
  • This work is the first result from the APEX-SZ experiment, and represents the first published scientific result from observations with a large array of multiplexed superconducting transition-edge sensor bolometers. cloud cygnus disk extinction magnetism mc outflow polarisation serpens sf structure sz theory turbulence CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In particular, we investigate the kinematics of the gas and dark matter components as well as the changes in the density profiles and the motion of the system in the L_X-T diagram. cloud cygnus disk extinction magnetism mc outflow polarisation serpens sf structure sz theory turbulence CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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