Vega
A bright blue-white star, high on summer nights in the north, long used as the zero point of the scale of star brightness.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.03, the 5th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 25 light years
- Kind of star
- White main-sequence star, spectral type A0 V
- Light it gives out
- About 50 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Lyra, where it is α Lyrae
- Catalogue number
- HIP 91262
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Ring NebulaA planetary nebula in Lyra, about three fingers away.
- AlbireoAn orange bright giant in Cygnus, about a hand span away.
- M 92A globular cluster in Hercules, about a hand span away.
- Hercules Globular ClusterA globular cluster in Hercules, about a hand span away.
- Dumbbell NebulaA planetary nebula in Vulpecula, about a hand span away.