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the fifth-brightest star in the sky, and the one everyone else gets measured against.
means a blue-white star in the constellation lyra, historically used as the zero-point brightness reference for the whole magnitude scale.
from from arabic al-nasr al-waqi, the swooping eagle, shortened by european astronomers into vega over centuries of translation.
future pole starwill be earth's north star again around 13,700 ad
first photographed starimaged in 1850, a milestone in astrophotography
brightness standardlong defined magnitude 0.0 for astronomers
sci-fi cameothe alien signal source in contact came from vega