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Cygnus is a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan. [1] Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, and it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross).
Deutsch: Singschwan (Cygnus cygnus) im Cumberland Wildpark Grünau im Almtal, Oberösterreich, Österreich English: Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) in the Cumberland zoo in Grünau, Almtal, Upper Austria, Austria
The whooper swan (/ˈhuːpə(ɹ) swɒn/ "hooper swan"; Cygnus cygnus), also known as the common swan, is a large northern hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan , and the type species for the genus Cygnus .
My favourite double star does require telescope – but it’s worth it! Albireo marks the head of Cygnus, the swan, as it flies along the Milky Way. To the naked eye it’s a single star, but ...
The mute swan was first formally named by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin as Anas olor in 1789 and was transferred by Johann Matthäus Bechstein to the new genus Cygnus in 1803. Both cygnus and olor mean "swan" in Latin; cygnus is a variant form of cycnus, borrowing from Greek κύκνος kyknos, a word of the same meaning. [5 ...
Pausanias mentions Cycnus, king of the Ligyes (Ligurians), as a renowned musician who after his death was changed into a swan by Apollo. [15] Servius also writes of Cycnus as a musician and a friend of Phaethon, and states that he was changed into a swan and later placed among the stars by Apollo (that is, as the constellation Cygnus ).
The tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus) is a small swan of the Holarctic. The two taxa within it are usually regarded as conspecific , but are also sometimes [ 3 ] [ 4 ] split into two species : Bewick's swan ( Cygnus bewickii ) of the Palaearctic and the whistling swan ( C. columbianus ) proper of the Nearctic .
English: A Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) landing at its nest. Deutsch: Der Höckerschwan ( Cygnus olor ) ist eine Vogelart, die innerhalb der Entenvögel (Anatidae) zur Gattung der Schwäne ( Cygnus ) und zur Unterfamilie der Gänse (Anserinae) gehört.