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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Cygnus used when naming stars, such as α Cygni.
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Examples
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Asteroid fell out of orbit and smashed up a habitat over in Cygni.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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The first star to which this test was applied with success was that known as 61 Cygni, which is thus shown to be no less than 40 billions of miles away from us -- many thousand times as far as we are from the Sun. The nearest of the Stars, so far as we yet know, is [Greek: alpha] Centauri, the distance of which is about 25 billions of miles.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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Cygni, which is just above and very close to [beta] (Albireo), does not belong to the cluster. [chi] is about half as far again from [phi] as
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While P Cygni is a good example of an LBV, it has many interesting characteristics in its own right.
Do Eruptions of P Cygni Point to a Companion? | Universe Today 2010
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They determined the central star had strong similarities to the known LBV P Cygni.
MN112 – A New Luminous Blue Variable Found From Its Nebula? | Universe Today 2010
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First colonies established on Alpha Centauri, 61 Cygni and Sirius.
Archive 2010-03-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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First colonies established on Alpha Centauri, 61 Cygni and Sirius.
The flame next time Johnny Pez 2010
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The other day, I wrote an article on Luminous Blue Variables LBVs which made reference to P Cygni as a well established LBV to which a group made comparisons.
Do Eruptions of P Cygni Point to a Companion? | Universe Today 2010
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It was actually the unexpected nova-like eruption of a known variable star, V407 Cygni.
Unprecedented Eruption Catches Astronomers By Surprise | Universe Today 2010
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This time of feature is known as a P Cygni profile.
MN112 – A New Luminous Blue Variable Found From Its Nebula? | Universe Today 2010
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