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 ...

is a star in the constellation Lyra. Vega or VEGA may also refer to:

Places

Norway

Vega Municipality Vega is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Gladstad. Other villages include Holand and Ylvingen. The municipality comprises ...

, a municipality in Nordland county *

Vega (island in Norway) Vega is an island in Vega Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The island is the largest island in the 6,500 islands in the Vegaøyan archipelago, all of which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The island lies in the Norwegian Sea, about we ...

, an island within Vega Municipality in Nordland county * Vega Archipelago, an archipelago and UNESCO site in Nordland county * Vega Church, a church in Vega Municipality in Nordland county

Spain

* Vega (Aller), Asturias * Vega, Gijón, Asturias * Vega de Granada, Andalusia

United States

* Vega, Georgia * Vega, Ohio *

Vega, Texas Vega is a city in and the county seat of Oldham County, Texas, Oldham County, Texas, United States. The population was 879 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 884 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. History In ...

Elsewhere

Vega (crater) Vega is an eroded lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon. It lies on the near side and so can be viewed from the Earth. Less than one crater diameter to the east-southeast is the slightly smaller Peirescius. Ab ...

, the Moon * Vega, Alberta, Canada *

Vega, Copenhagen Vega is a regional entertainment centre on Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Vesterbro in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was inaugurated in 1996 as part of the city's agenda as European Capital of Culture. Description Originally known as Folkets Hus, it was bui ...

, a concert hall in Copenhagen * Vega, Haninge, Sweden ** Vega Station, on Stockholm commuter rail *

La Vega, Dominican Republic La Vega, officially Concepción de la Vega (Real), is the third most populous city and a municipality of the Dominican Republic. It is the provincial capital of the homonymous province. The city is known as the Carnival epicenter of the Dominica ...

Vega Island Vega Island () is an island in Antarctica, long and wide, which is the northernmost of the James Ross Island group and lies in the west part of Erebus and Terror Gulf. It is separated from James Ross Island by Herbert Sound and from Trinit ...

, Antarctica

Aerospace

, on the Moon *

Vega (rocket) Vega (, , ) was a European expendable small-lift launch vehicle developed by Avio and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Designed to carry payloads between into low Earth and pola ...

, 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 its high speed and lo ...

, an American monoplane produced 1927–1931 * Percival Vega Gull, a British aircraft produced 1935–1939 *

Slingsby Vega The Vickers-Slingsby T-65 Vega is a 15-metre class class glider which first flew on 3 June 1977. Of fibreglass construction, it features linked camber-changing flaps and airbrakes, and a retractable main and tailwheel. A simplified versi ...

, a British glider * Stern ST 87 Vega, a French homebuilt aircraft design *

Vega Aircraft Corporation The Vega Aircraft Corporation was a subsidiary of the Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California responsible for much of its parent company's production in World War II. History The company was first formed in August 1937 as the AiRove ...

, a subsidiary of Lockheed *

Vega program Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinisation of names, Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is List of star systems wi ...

, 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 The Walter Vega was a five-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft use, built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s. Applications * Aero A.34 * ANBO V * Avia BH-11 * Couzinet 22 * Fizir AF-2 * Pander E85 * PWS-8 Specifications Se ...

, a Czechoslovak radial aeroengine

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Vega (''Street Fighter''), a ''Street Fighter'' character, named Balrog in Japan ** M. Bison, the main antagonist of the ''Street Fighter'' universe, known as Vega in Japan *

King Vega This is a list of characters from the anime and manga series '' Mazinger Z'', '' Great Mazinger'', '' Grendizer'', and '' Mazinkaiser'', as well as the '' Shin Mazinger'' reboot. It lists the main players of the plots as well as minor characters ...

, a ''Ufo Robot Grendizer'' character * Vega Obscura, a ''Zoids: New Century Zero'' character * Vega, a '' Gear Fighter Dendoh'' character * General Vega, a characters from the video game '' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'' * James Vega, a character in the ''Mass Effect'' series * Tori Vega and Trina Vega, characters in the Nickelodeon sitcom ''Victorious'' * Vic and Vincent Vega, brothers from the Quentin Tarantino films ''

Pulp Fiction ''Pulp Fiction'' is a 1994 American independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary.See, e.g., King (2002), pp. 185–7; ; It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence ...

'' and ''

Reservoir Dogs ''Reservoir Dogs'' is a 1992 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length directorial debut. It stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Tarant ...

'' * VEGA, a sentient artificial intelligence that runs the UAC Mars facility in ''

Doom Doom is another name for damnation. Doom may also refer to: People * Doom (professional wrestling), the tag team of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed * Daniel Doom (1934–2020), Belgian cyclist * Debbie Doom (born 1963), American softball pitche ...

'' and also runs the Fortress of Doom in ''

Doom Eternal ''Doom Eternal'' is a 2020 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. The sequel to '' Doom'' (2016), and the seventh game in the ''Doom'' series, it was released for PlayStation 4, Stadia, Wind ...

Music

Vega Company The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881. The company began under Swedish-born Julius Nelson, his brother Carl, and a group of associates that included John Pahn and John Sw ...

, a musical instruments manufacturer * Vega (British band), a melodic rock/AOR band formed in 2009 *

Vega (Turkish band) Vega is a Turkish alternative rock band, founded by keyboardist Gökhan Mert Koral (also vocalist on some songs), vocalist Deniz Özbey, and guitarist Esat Tuğrul Akyüz in 1996. Gökhan Mert Koral left the group in early 2003. They played in m ...

, an alternative rock band formed in 1996 *

, a Danish concert hall * ''Vega'' (album), an album by Janvs * ''Vega'' (Anberlin album), 2024 * "Vega", an outro song by Breaking Benjamin from the 2018 album ''

Ember An ember, also called a hot coal, is a hot lump of smouldering solid fuel, typically glowing, composed of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material. Embers (hot coals) can exist within, remain after, or sometimes precede, a ...

'' * ''Vega'', a 2018 album by

Danheim Reidar Schæfer Olsen (born 29 April 1985), known professionally as Danheim, is a Denmark, Danish Ambient music, ambient and Nordic folk music, Nordic folk musician. Works and style Olsen was born in Brøndby Municipality, Brøndby in 1985 an ...

* "Vega", a song by Ed Sheeran from the album '' -'', 2023

Other media

* Vega (radio network), a now-defunct Australian network ** Smooth 95.3 (formerly ''Vega 95.3''), an Australian radio station *

Yle Vega Yle Vega (prior to 1 September 2016 – Yle Radio Vega) is a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in the Swedish language. It is operated by Finland's national public service broadcaster Yle, and broadcast news, current affairs, culture and musi ...

, a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in Swedish

Businesses and organizations

* Vega (company), a nutrition brand *

, a musical instrument manufacturer *

Facel Vega Facel S.A. was a French manufacturer of pressed steel automobile components and, subsequently, complete automobiles of their own design. To intensify its World War II war effort, French subcontracting company for military aeronautics Bronzavia ...

, a French car manufacturer (1954–1964) * Vega Group, a Russian special forces unit * Vega Industries, a New Zealand marine light manufacturer *

Vega Radio Engineering Corporation JSC Vega Radio Engineering Corporation (, earlier CKB-17, NII-17, MNIIP) is a Russian company specializing in military radar and surveillance and C&C systems for ground-based, airborne and space systems like A-50, Almaz-1 and UAVs. Headquarters ...

, a Russian military surveillance radio maker * Vega Sicilia, a Spanish winery * Vega Telecommunications Group, a Ukrainian telecommunications provider * Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, an international development group

People

* Vega (singer) (born 1979), Spanish singer-songwriter * Vega (surname), a list of people so named * Vega Jurij (1754–1802), Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer * Vega Tamotia (born 1985), Australian actress

Schools

* Vega (South Africa), a private university in South Africa * Vega High School, Vega, Texas, U.S. * Vega Schools, Gurgaon, Haryana state, India

Science, technology and medicine

* Vega, the GPU architecture from

Vivante Corporation Vivante Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an R&D center in Shanghai, China. The company was founded in 2004 as GiQuila and focused on the portable gaming market. The company's first pr ...

* Vega, line of GPUs manufactured by Video Seven * AMD Vega, the GPU architecture featured in the Radeon RX Vega line of GPUs *

Radeon RX Vega series The Radeon RX Vega series is a series of graphics processors developed by AMD. These GPUs use the Graphics Core Next (GCN) 5th generation architecture, codenamed Vega, and are manufactured on 14 nm FinFET technology, developed by Samsung Elec ...

, graphics processors developed by AMD *

Vega machine Vega machines are a type of electroacupuncture device used in pseudoscientific Vega testing, which proponents claim can diagnose allergies and other illnesses. The forerunner to the Vega test was electroacupuncture according to Voll developed by ...

, an electrodiagnostic device * Vertebrate and Genome Annotation Project (VEGA), a biological database * Vega and Vega-Lite visualisation grammars, visualization tools implementing a grammar of graphics in JavaScript

Ships

* HMS ''Vega'', several ships of the British Royal Navy * MS ''Vega'', now MS ''Mytilene'', a Greek ferry ship * SS ''Vega'', various steamships * USS ''Vega'', several ships of the United States Navy * ''Vega'', a Finnish schooner; see Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union * Private Security Vehicle Garuda Vega, a fictional ship in the 2017 Indian Telugu-language film '' PSV Garuda Vega''

Vehicles

Chevrolet Vega The Chevrolet Vega is a Subcompact car, subcompact automobile manufactured and marketed by General Motors, GM's Chevrolet division from 1970 until 1977. Available in two-door hatchback, notchback, station wagon, wagon, and sedan delivery body st ...

, an American subcompact made in the 1970s *

Vega EVX The Vega EVX is an Electric car, all-electric Battery electric vehicle, battery-powered two-seater AWD sports car developed by Sri Lankan automobile manufacturer Vega Innovations and is planned to enter production in 2022. This car is the first sp ...

, a Sri Lankan electric coupe * Ford Vega, a concept car *

, a French performance luxury car made in the 1950s

Other uses

Vega (grape) Vega (also known as Incrocio Dalmasso 2/26) is a white Italian wine grape variety that was created in 1937 by grape breeder Giovanni Dalmasso by crossing (vine), crossing the Hungarian wine grape Furmint with the Croatian wine grape Malvazija Istar ...

, a white Italian wine grape * Vega, or grass valley, a meadow located within a forested and relatively small drainage basin * Vega, in finance a measure of sensitivity to volatility; see

Greeks (finance) In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities (known in calculus as partial derivatives; first-order or higher) representing the sensitivity of the price of a derivative instrument such as an option to changes in one or more underlying p ...

* Vega Medal, awarded by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography