It is five times the size of the famed Ring Nebula in Lyra at 6. 5 arcminutes.

Lyra (; Latin for lyre, from Greek λύρα ) is a small constellation.

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

Lyra is visible from the northern hemisphere from spring through autumn, and nearly overhead, in temperate latitudes, during the summer months.

NGC 6745 is an irregular spiral galaxy in Lyra that is at a distance of 208 million light-years.

In Wales, Lyra is known as King Arthur's Harp ( Talyn Arthur ), and King David's harp.

In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation.

In the film K-PAX, the constellation of Lyra is the location of the planet K-PAX, an inhabited world that orbits twin stars and has seven moons.

In the film Contact, the message intercepted by Jodi Foster's character is coming from Vega, the brightest star in the Lyra constellation.

In the TV / Videogame series MegaMan Star Force, Lyra is the alien that accompanies Sonia Sky, who is otherwise known as Sonia Strumm in the game series, but Lyra is sometimes known as Harp, most commonly found in the original Japanese version, Ryuusei no Rockman.

Vega ( α Lyr, α Lyrae, Alpha Lyrae ) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.

The brilliant Vega in the constellation Lyra is often touted as the best north star ( it fulfilled that role around 12, 000 BC and will do so again around the year 14, 000 ); however, it never comes closer than 5 ° to the pole.

Lyra Township is a township in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States.

The Summer Triangle is an astronomical asterism involving an imaginary triangle drawn on the northern hemisphere's celestial sphere, with its defining vertices at Altair, Deneb, and Vega, being the brightest stars in the three constellations of Aquila, Cygnus, and Lyra.

The Cretan lyra is the dominant folk instrument on the island ; it is a three-stringed bowed instrument similar to the Byzantine Lyra.

PHOENIX is invited to play at the " Bratislawa Lyra " and " Sopot " festivals in Czechoslovakia and Poland-the band is a big hit.

This type of variable is named after the prototype, the variable star RR Lyrae in the constellation Lyra.

She is told to travel through the same window between worlds used by Will and Lyra, and that her role is to " play the serpent " and that all her life's work has led to this.

: " I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness ....

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

In January 2010 the Kepler Mission announced the discovery of the additional planets Kepler-7b, Kepler-8b, and three planets around Kepler-9 are expected to be the first of many discovered by the mission, which has a significant part of its field of view in Lyra.

In Greek mythology, Lyra was associated with the myth of Orpheus, the musician who was killed by the Bacchantes.

Lyra was known as Urcuchillay by the Incas and was worshipped as an animal deity.

In the poem Aniara by the Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, the space ship Aniara was travelling at high speed towards the stars of Lyra after having been shipwrecked by collisions with asteroids.

Rashi's explanations of the Chumash were also cited extensively in Postillae Perpetuae by Nicholas de Lyra ( 1292 – 1340 ), a French Franciscan.

Roosevelt's crew consisted of his 24-year-old son Kermit, Colonel Rondon, a naturalist, George K. Cherrie, sent by the American Museum of Natural History, Brazilian Lieutenant Joao Lyra, team physician Dr. José Antonio Cajazeira, and 16 skilled paddlers and porters ( called camaradas in Portuguese ).

The original synthesiser setup as envisioned by Moog was called the Constellation, and consisted of three instruments-the polyphonic synthesiser, called the Apollo, a monophonic lead synthesizer called the Lyra, and a bass-pedal synthesiser, called the Taurus.

The first known mention of the name ' viol d ' amore ' appeared in John Evelyn's Diary ( 20 November 1679 ): " for its swetenesse & novelty the Viol d ' Amore of 5 wyre-strings, plaid on with a bow, being but an ordinary violin, play'd on Lyra way by a German, than which I never heard a sweeter Instrument or more surprizing ..."

* Maria Farantouri & Rainer Kirchmann — Sun & Time: Songs by Theodorakis ( Lyra )

Megademos, demos with more content, usually split into several parts, appeared in the beginning of 90's, with the advent of the The Lyra II by ESI.

In His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, the two protagonist Lyra and Will find themselves lost amongst many worlds, and travel them looking for the other.

Greek figures were produced during the 1970s by a company called Lyra.

He took part in revising the Dutch translation of the Old Testament in 1633, and after his death a book by him, called the Lyra Davidis, was published, which sought to explain the principles of Hebrew metre, and which created some controversy at the time, having been opposed by Louis Cappel.

Lyra spends most of her time socializing with other children of the city, sometimes harmoniously, frequently mock-violently, and often by way of avoiding school-work.

Letters written by Lyra included in the companion book Once Upon a Time in the North reveal that Lyra is researching her dissertation for a M. Phil in Economic History, indicating her to be continuing to study during her twenties.

In the 1999 unabridged audio production, Lyra was performed by the voiceover actress Jo Wyatt ( as Joanna Wyatt ).

In a 2003 radio adaptation, Lyra was voiced by child actress Lulu Popplewell.

Lyra was played by Anna Maxwell Martin in the first run and by Elaine Symons in the second.

She settled in Ottawa in 1942, where her involvement with Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Opera Lyra Ottawa and the Council for the Arts in Ottawa led to recognition and awards such as the Order of Canada, the Lescarbot Award and the Victor Tolgesy Arts Award.

Lyra is portrayed as dirty-blond-haired, with pale-blue eyes, thin, and short for her age.

Lyra is unruly and tomboyish, and her complete disregard for her appearance and personal hygiene exasperates her adult caretakers.

Lyra's inevitable betrayal can be interpreted as two separate occasions and either occurs when Lyra leads her friend Roger to Lord Asriel on Svalbard at the end of the first book, in the chapter titled " Betrayal ", or when Lyra leaves her dæmon on the shore of the lake in the Land of the Dead.

She is excited to start picking up on a pattern in the readings, and Pullman tells us that this discovery of a pattern is the " second thing she said to Will next day in the Botanic Garden ", implying that the next day was Midsummer's Day, when she and Will would be sitting on the same bench in their separate worlds, and that there was something else, presumably that she loved him, that Lyra said to Will ( and perhaps would say every year ) before telling him of her reading.

The novel continues the adventures of Lyra Belacqua as she investigates the mysterious Dust phenomenon and searches for her father.

There, Will encounters 12-year-old Lyra Silvertongue and her daemon Pantalaimon, who came here after entering the hole in the sky that her father, Lord Asriel, created at the end of Northern Lights.

Meanwhile, the witch Serafina Pekkala, who was separated from Lyra during a battle in Northern Lights, is searching for her.

Lyra revisits Dr. Malone the next day, but after accepting a ride from the well-dressed Sir Charles Latrom, she discovers that Sir Charles has stolen her alethiometer and she asks Will to help her retrieve it.