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Vega

1 American  
[vee-guh, vey-] / ˈvi gə, ˈveɪ- /

noun

  1. Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.

Vega 2 American  
[vey-guh, ve-gah] / ˈveɪ gə, ˈvɛ gɑ /

noun

  1. Lope de Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.

  2. Garcilaso de la Vega.

Vega 1 British  
/ ˈviːɡə /

noun

  1. 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

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Vega 2 British  
/ ˈveɪɡə, ˈbeɣa /

noun

  1. See Lope de Vega

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Vega Scientific  
/ vē′gə,vā′gə /

  1. 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.

Etymology

Origin of Vega

1630–40; < Medieval Latin < Arabic ( al-nasr-al- ) wāqiʿ (the) falling (eagle), originally designating the three stars Alpha, Epsilon and Zeta Lyrae

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