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
The media consortium first alleged in 2021 extensive Moroccan use of the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, including against French officials.
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
Boeing hasn’t built KC-135s since the 1960s, so the Air Force will most likely replace the lost plane with a KC-46 Pegasus, a tanker that is based on a modified 767 airliner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Stare at Pegasus on the porch all night?
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
Jerry Xuan, a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at UCLA, built sophisticated atmospheric models to compare with the telescope's spectra and determine whether sulfur was present.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
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
Capricornus 82 The head of the Sea Goat is located by a line drawn from α Pegasi through ζ and θ Pegasi and prolonged about 25°.
From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott
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