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"Cygnus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... constellation, known as the Swan or Cygnus. The brightest star will be identified as the vertex of a right-angled triangle, of which the line from Vega to the Pole Star is the base, as shown in Fig. 91. There are in Cygnus five principal stars, which form a ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball
... are in some way connected, and have not been fortuitously thrown together. Miss Agnes M. Clerke made the striking remark that the dusky lanes in M8 are exemplified on the largest scale in the great rift dividing the Milky Way, from Cygnus in the northern hemisphere all the way to the "Cross'' in the southern. Similar lanes are found in many other clusters, and they are generally associated with flanking rows of stars, resembling in their arrangement the thick-set houses and villas along ...
— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss |
Words linked to "Cygnus" : trumpeter swan, Cygnus cygnus, Anatidae, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, whooper, Deneb, mute swan, tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus, Cygnus atratus, Cygnus olor, black swan, Northern Cross, constellation, Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter, whooper swan, family Anatidae |
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