Vega
(Alpha Lyrae)
(brightest star in constellation Lyra)
Vega (aka Alpha Lyrae) is the
brightest star in constellation Lyra.
It is a relatively close star, 25 light-years from Earth, and
one of the most luminous stars in the solar neighborhood,
along with Arcturus and Sirius.
It is very well studied: some of the first
spectral measurements were done on Vega,
and various standardized magnitude scales were defined so
as to take Vega's magnitude as zero (these Vega-based
scales now termed the Vega system).
Vega's characteristics:
(star,bright star,variable star)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega
https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=Vega
https://chview.nova.org/solcom/stars/vega.htm
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/vega.html
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Stars/Vega
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Starlog/vega.html
http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/alphaLyr.html
Redshift | Parsecs /Distance | Lightyears /Lookback Years | | |
~0 | 8pc | 25ly | | Vega |
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Coordinates: | Vega J183656.33635+384701.2802 |
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Referenced by pages:
A-type star (A)
AB system
absolute magnitude (M)
apparent magnitude (m)
magnitude
photometric system
spectral type
UBV photometric system
variable star
Vega system
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