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Vega (other)
Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra. Vega or VEGA may also refer to: Aerospace * Vega (crater), a lunar crater * Vega (rocket), an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace, jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency * Lockheed Vega The Lockheed Vega is an American five- to seven-seat high-wing monoplane airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record-breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very l ..., an American monoplane produced 1927–1931 * Percival Vega Gull, a British aircraft produced 1935–1939 * Slingsby Vega, a British glider * Stern ST 87 Vega, a French homebuilt aircraft design * Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed * Vega program, a series of space missions * VEGA Space GmbH, a European aerospace company that merged into Telespazio VEGA Deutschland * Vega Space UK, a UK-based space company * Walter Vega, a Czechoslovak radial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vega
Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively close at only from the Sun, and one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood. It is the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. Vega has been extensively studied by astronomers, leading it to be termed "arguably the next most important star in the sky after the Sun". Vega was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be so again around the year 13,727, when its declination will be . Vega was the first star other than the Sun to have its image and spectrum photographed. It was one of the first stars whose distance was estimated through parallax measurements. Vega has functioned as the baseline for calibrating the photometric brightness scale and was one of the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
