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About the Vega Star-
Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, and the fifth brightest star in the sky. It is the third brightest star in the Northern night sky, after Sirius and Arcturus, and can often be seen near the zenith in the mid-northern latitudes during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
It is a "nearby star" at only 25.3 light years from Earth, and together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the brightest stars near our own solar system.
Vega is a vertex of the Summer Triangle, which consists of Vega (in Lyra), Deneb (in Cygnus) and Altair (in Aquila). This triangle is very recognisable in the northern skies for there are few bright stars in its vicinity.
Its spectral class is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it is firmly in the main sequence, fusing hydrogen to helium in its core. Since more powerful stars use their fusion fuel more quickly than smaller ones, Vega's life time is only one billion years, a tenth of our Sun's at over 10 billion years. Vega's current age is between 200 and 500 million years. Vega is twice as massive as our Sun and burns at fifty times the power. In about 14,000 AD, Vega will become the North Star, replacing Polaris.
The name Vega comes from the Arabic word waqi meaning "falling", translated "the swooping eagle". As part of the constellation Lyra it represents a jewel set in the body of the harp. It is also known as Zhìnuxing, the Star of the Weaver Girl in Chinese.
Possible planetary system
Vega has a disk of dust and gas around it, discovered by the IRAS satellite in the mid 1980s. This was initially thought to be a protoplanetary disk, but is now considered a "debris disk" due to the star's relatively young age of between 200 and 500 million years. In 1998 teams at the Joint Astronomy Centre and UCLA detected irregularities in it that suggest the presence of a planet. A 2003 paper hypothesizes these lumps could be caused by a Neptune-sized planet having migrated from 40 to 65 AU over 56 million years, an orbit large enough to allow the formation of smaller rocky planets closer to Vega. These findings have yet to be fully confirmed, but certainly suggest a solar system being formed similiar to our own.
Cultural significance
The star has been the subject of many 'firsts' in Astronomy; in 1850 it became the first star to be photographed, and in 1872 the first to have its spectrum photographed. It was also debatably the first star to have its parallax measured, in the pioneering experiments of Friedrich Struve in 1837. Finally, it became the first star to have a car named after it, when Chevrolet launched the 'Vega' in 1971.
In Chinese mythology, there is a love story of Qi Xi in which Niu Lang (Altair) and his two children (β and γ Aquilae) are separated forever from their mother Zhi Nü (Vega) who is on the far side of the river, the Milky Way. The Japanese Tanabata festival is also based on this legend.
Written in part from Wikipedia.com...
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