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Vega
is always a great word to know.
So is planet. Does it mean:
| the particular appearance presented by the moon or a planet at a given time |
| any of the nine large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun |
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World English Dictionary
| Vega2 (ˈveɪɡə, Spanish ˈbeɣa) | |
| —n | |
| See Lope de Vega | |
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Word Origin & History
Vega
1638, bright northern star, from Arabic (Al Nasr) al Waqi translated variously as "the eagle of the desert" or "the falling vulture."
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Science Dictionary
Vega  (vē'gə, vā'gə) Pronunciation Key
A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Vega
brightest star in the northern constellation Lyra and fifth brightest in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of 0.03. It is also one of the Sun's closer neighbours, at a distance of about 25 light-years. Vega's spectral type is A (white) and its luminosity class V (main sequence). It will become the northern polestar by about AD 14,000 because of the precession of the equinoxes.
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