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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However the reports published by a media consortium, led by Forbidden Stories, about the Pegasus spyware threatened to overshadow his visit.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
He had initially opened Pegasus Books in Bend, Ore., in 1980, with plans to become an author.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
He started Pegasus in 2024 with his own money and a handful of engineers in Colorado and Eastern Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
HR 8799 lies about 133 light years away in the constellation Pegasus.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
“When your brother is Pegasus, you get used to being forgotten. Oh, look, a winged horse! Does anyone care about me? No!”
From "The Mark of Athena" 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
Then, in 1995, astronomers announced they’d found one: 51 Pegasi b, a Jupiter-class planet circling a star that very much resembled our sun in size, mass and age.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023
Out with the hand drawn-animated ponies, in with their creepily-anthropomorphized, digitally-animated brethren: the “new generation,” if you will, which includes not only ponies but Pegasi and unicorns from all over Equestria.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
Latitude by a Pegasi 20 degrees 7 minutes 23 seconds; variation of compass 6 degrees 20 minutes east. 28th October.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
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