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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Nike, and some retailers, have also cited the popularity of running sneakers like the Vomero and the Pegasus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 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
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
Harry sat up at the Pegasus, his fingers on the keys.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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
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
In 85 Pegasi, the brighter star is about 40 times brighter than its companion, while Furner finds that the mass of the fainter star is about 4 times that of the brighter!
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
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