Pegasus
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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
The trail features a zodiac-inspired constellation in Sloane Square, a lunar landscape and Saturn display at Duke of York Square, and a four-metre floral dragon and Pegasus on Sloane Street.
From BBC ● May 20, 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
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
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
Baham, θ Pegasi, "the young of domestic animals."
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
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