Pegasus
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Pegasi
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Classical Mythology. a winged horse, created from the blood of Medusa, that opened the spring of Hippocrene with a stroke of its hoof, and that carried Bellerophon in his attack on the Chimera.
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Astronomy. the Winged Horse, a northern constellation between Cygnus and Aquarius.
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As the flying horse of the Muses, Pegasus is a symbol of high-flying poetic imagination.
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He had initially opened Pegasus Books in Bend, Ore., in 1980, with plans to become an author.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Similarly, Nike debuted the ACG Pegasus Trail in April for customers who like the lightweight, responsive Pegasus Road shoe but were moving to the dirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
The newer tankers are KC-46A Pegasus aircraft, based on the Boeing 767.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
HR 8799 lies about 133 light years away in the constellation Pegasus.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
Lord Pegasus had named her Horse Friend, and she would not let him down.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Just inside, Max Streicher’s “Quadriga” stages massive billowing horses that call to mind wingless Pegasi the way they seem to gallop through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
The research was funded, in part, by the Heising-Simons Foundation and the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship program.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
One such detection — the world 51 Pegasi b in 1995 — led to the award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
Indeed, the first planet they found, 51 Pegasi b, orbits a sun 50 light years away that heats its surface to more than 1,000 degrees centigrade, the award-giving academy said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 8, 2019
Latitude by a Pegasi 19 degrees 16 minutes 22 seconds. 22nd October.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
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