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Vega
1[ vee-guh, vey- ]
noun
- Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.
Vega
2[ vey-guh; Spanish ve-gah ]
noun
- Lo·pe de [law, -pe , th, e], Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
Vega
1/ ˈveɪɡə; ˈbeɣa /
Vega
2/ ˈviːɡə /
noun
- the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and one of the most conspicuous in the N hemisphere. It is part of an optical double star having a faint companion. Distance: 25.3 light years; spectral type: A0V
Vega
/ vē′gə,vā′gə /
- 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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Vega, Texas, got the brunt of this weeklong February storm, with a 43-inch snowfall.
In August, John Anthony Vega was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 77-year-old woman in Pennsylvania.
Nothing really happened with Grace (Makenzie Vega) in that episode.
Graham Phillips and Makenzie Vega are so remarkable as actors… In the script, it said, “Alicia just breaks down.”
And Marta Moreno Vega, an Afro-Caribbean expert on Yoruba philosophy, seems to dare you to sum up her ethnicity.
Such is precisely the much discussed statement that Garcilasso de la Vega says he often heard from the native Peruvians.
Above him was the enormous triangle formed by Deneb, Vega, and Altair.
When he reached the highest crest, Vega still hung over the sullen glow of a furnace throat; but the smudge had grown darker.
At length the dawn broke over the great misty plain, for now they were crossing the vega.
A few days since we made up a party and rode out to the famous town of Santa Fe, in the delightful Vega, about eight miles away.
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