Cygnus is the Latin word for
swan
Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...
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Astronomy
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Cygnus (constellation)
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 constellations of the northern summer and autumn, and it features a prominent as ...
, a northern constellation
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Cygnus A
Cygnus A ( 3C 405) is a radio galaxy, and one of the strongest radio sources in the sky. A concentrated radio source in Cygnus was discovered by Grote Reber in 1939. In 1946 Stanley Hey and his colleague James Phillips identified that the source ...
, a radio galaxy within the constellation
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Cygnus X (star complex), a star complex within the constellation
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Cygnus X-1, a binary system within the constellation
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Cygnus X-3, a binary system within the constellation
Business & industry
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Cygnus 20
The Cygnus 20 is a Canadian trailerable sailboat that was designed by George Hinterhoeller and first built in 1963.
Production
The design was initially built in 1963 by Hinterhoeller Yachts in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and also by Clark ...
, a Canadian sailboat design
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''Cygnus'' (spacecraft), a space vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and Thales Alenia Space
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Cygnus Air or Gestair Cargo, a Spanish cargo airline
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Cygnus Business Media, a U.S.-based business-to-business publishing company
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Cygnus Solutions, a company that provided commercial support for free software and the original developer of Cygwin
Other uses
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''Cygnus'' (genus), the genus of most swans
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Cygnus (mythology) or Cycnus, a number of characters in Greek mythology
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Cygnus X-1 (song series), a 1977–1978 two-part song series by Rush
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Cygnus X (music group), a trance music project
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Cygnus (spacecraft), an expendable spacecraft
* USS ''Cygnus'', a fictional starship in ''
The Black Hole''
* Empress Cygnus, a non-player character in the game ''
MapleStory''
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Cygnus gas field
The Cygnus gas field is a natural gas reservoir and gas production facilities in the UK sector of the southern North Sea. It is about 150 km of east of the Lincolnshire coast and started gas production in 2016.
The field
The Cygnus field exten ...
, a UK North Sea gas field
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Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System
The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a space-based system developed by the University of Michigan and Southwest Research Institute with the aim of improving hurricane forecasting by better understanding the interactions b ...
(CYGNSS), a hurricane study satellite constellation in development by NASA
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Cygnet (disambiguation)
A cygnet is a young swan.
Cygnet may also refer to:
Places
*Cygnet Island, a small islet in south-eastern Australia
*Cygnet, Ohio, a village in the United States
*Cygnet River, South Australia, a locality on Kangaroo Island
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Cygwin
Cygwin ( ) is a POSIX-compatible programming and runtime environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Under Cygwin, source code designed for Unix-like operating systems may be compiled with minimal modification and executed.
The Cygwin in ...
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Swan (disambiguation)
A swan is a bird of the genus ''Cygnus'' (true swans) or ''Coscoroba'' (coscoroba swans).
Swan, swans, or The Swan may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Film and television
* ''The Swan'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent film
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