Cygnus-X is an active star-forming region about 4500 light years from Earth. It is located in the Cygnus constellation, whose name comes from the Greek word for "swan," right at where the imagined ...

But astronomers didn’t spot one until 1964, some 6,070 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation. Geiger counters launched into space detected cosmic x-rays coming from a region called Cygnus ...

The resupply Cygnus spacecraft reached the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, delivering some four tons of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, NASA said.

That could explain why telescope observations of the Cygnus region in the 1980s revealed gamma rays at energies of 10 trillion eV but were never confirmed, he says.

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“The large-scale excess towards the Cygnus region has to be attributed to charged cosmic rays,” he argues. Journal reference: Science (vol 314, p 439) ...

The team aimed the space-based Fermi Large Area Telescope toward Cygnus, hoping to spy a telltale glimmer from gamma rays inside the region’s superbubble, which is more than 100 light-years ...

WHAT’S NEW — In 1971, Cygnus X-1 became the first black hole to be observed from Earth. While black holes had long been predicted theoretically, Cygnus X-1 became the first to be positively ...

Cygnus-X is an active star-forming region about 4500 light years from Earth. It is located in the Cygnus constellation, whose name comes from the Greek word for "swan," right at where the imagined ...