circinus n a small faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Musca and Triangulum Australe Synonym(s) Circinus
Quotes circinus Niel Brandt in PhysOrg.com We found the X-ray jet in our Milky Way Galaxy in Circinus X-1, a binary system in which the neutron star is in orbit around a star several times the mass of the Sun, about 20,000 light years from Earth,Brandt said.