Cygnus is the Latin word for swan and may refer to:

Astronomy

* Cygnus (constellation), a northern constellation ** Cygnus A, a radio galaxy within the constellation **

Cygnus X (star complex) Cygnus-X is a massive star formation region located in the constellation of Cygnus at a distance from the Sun of 1.4 kiloparsecs (4,600 light years). As it is located behind the Cygnus Rift and its light is heavily absorbed by the Milky Way's ...

, a star complex within the constellation **

Cygnus X-1 Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole. It was discovered in 1964 during a rocket flight and is one of the ...

, a binary system within the constellation **

Cygnus X-3 Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary ( HMXB), one of the stronger binary X-ray sources in the sky. It is often considered to be a microquasar, and it is believed to be a compact object in a binary system which is pulling in a strea ...

, a binary system within the constellation

Business & industry

* Cygnus 20, a Canadian sailboat design * ''Cygnus'' (spacecraft), a space vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and Thales Alenia Space *

Cygnus Air Cygnus Air (Corporación Ygnus Air) is a cargo airline based in Madrid, Spain. It is a privately owned airline operating scheduled flights to destinations mainly in Europe. Its main base is Madrid Barajas International Airport. Founded in 1994 ...

or Gestair Cargo, a Spanish cargo airline *

Cygnus Business Media Cygnus Business Media is a diversified microcap business-to-business media company, providing 1.7 million readers annually, according to the company, with many business media options, including business publications, trade shows, online opportuni ...

, a U.S.-based business-to-business publishing company *

Cygnus Solutions Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. Its tagline was: ''Making free software affordable''. For years, employ ...

, a company that provided commercial support for free software and the original developer of Cygwin

Other uses

* ''Cygnus'' (genus), the genus of most swans *

Cygnus (mythology) :''The butterfly genus ''Cycnus'' is now synonymized with ''Panthiades. In Greek mythology, multiple characters were known as Cycnus (Ancient Greek: Κύκνος) or Cygnus. The literal meaning of the name is "swan", and accordingly most of them end ...

or Cycnus, a number of characters in Greek mythology *

Cygnus X-1 (song series) "Cygnus X-1" is a two-part song series by Canadians, Canadian progressive rock band Rush (band), Rush. The first part, "Book I: The Voyage", is the last song on the 1977 album ''A Farewell to Kings'', and the second part, "Book II: Hemispheres", ...

, a 1977–1978 two-part song series by Rush *

Cygnus X (music group) Cygnus X was a trance music project from Germany named after the famous X-ray binary star Cygnus X-1. It began as a collaboration between Matthias Hoffmann and Ralf Hildenbeutel, who later left.Cygnus (spacecraft) Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and now manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems as part of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. It is launched by Nor ...

, an expendable spacecraft * USS ''Cygnus'', a fictional starship in ''

The Black Hole ''The Black Hole'' is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Gary Nelson and produced by Walt Disney Productions. The film stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins and Ernest Borgnin ...

'' * Empress Cygnus, a non-player character in the game ''

MapleStory ''MapleStory'' () is a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by South Korean company Wizet. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions, published by vari ...

'' * Cygnus gas field, a UK North Sea gas field

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