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Vega is mentioned in a Chinese legend about Zhang Qian, though some argue that the historical person is not the subject of the legend ; he just shared a name.
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It is a relatively close star at only 36. 7 light-years from Earth, and, together with Vega and Sirius, one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood.
It is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0. 77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle ( the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega ).
It can be divided in two sections: the northwestern part is the Yaque del Norte Valley ( or Línea Noroeste ) and the eastern Yuna Valley ( or Vega Real, English: Royal Valley ).
The Vega Real is the most fertile area in the country, with a high population density.
Its principal star, Vega ( Abhijit in Sanskrit ), a corner of the Summer Triangle, is one of the brightest stars in the sky.
In the film Contact, the message intercepted by Jodi Foster's character is coming from Vega, the brightest star in the Lyra constellation.
Based on the tables by Anton Felkel and Jurij Vega, Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectured in 1797 or 1798 that π ( a ) is approximated by the function a /( A ln ( a ) + B ), where A and B are unspecified constants.
However in 2007, because of the age of the actors and the onscreen deaths of both characters, he claimed that the film ( which he intended to call Double V Vega ) is " kind of unlikely now ".
Liam Howe has become a successful writer / producer and has written and produced the likes of Marina and the Diamonds, and Ellie Goulding, he is signed to Columbia records for his solo project which includes collaborations from Alan Vega, Neneh Cherry and Princess Superstar.
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.
Vega is only about a tenth of the age of the Sun, but since it is 2. 1 times as massive its expected lifetime is also one tenth of that of the Sun ; both stars are at present approaching the midpoint of their life expectancies.
Vega is also a suspected variable star that may vary slightly in magnitude in a periodic manner.
From Earth, Vega is being observed from the direction of one of these poles.
This approach is more convenient for astronomers, since Vega is not always available for calibration.
Vega is one of six A0V stars that were used to set the initial mean values for this photometric system when it was introduced in the 1950s.
However, the flux density of Vega drops rapidly in the infrared, and is near 100 Jy at 5 micrometers.
This formation is the approximate shape of a right triangle, with Vega located at its right angle.
At present, Vega has more than twice the mass of the Sun and its full luminosity is about 40 times the Sun's value.
If Vega is variable, then it may be a Delta Scuti type with a period of about 0. 107 days.
The visual spectrum of Vega is dominated by absorption lines of hydrogen ; specifically by the hydrogen Balmer series with the electron at the n = 2 principal quantum number.
The X-ray emission from Vega is very low, demonstrating that the corona for this star must be very weak or non-existent.
Vega and mentioned
Vega retained his record 52 years until 1841 and his method is mentioned still today.
", mentioned along the names of Bayamón, Barranquitas, Vega Baja and Adjuntas.
Ganassa is mentioned numerous times by Lope de Vega, who may have based his comic servant Gracioso on commedia dell ' arte types.
Of the better known writers of this kind of dramatic literature may be mentioned Juan de la Enzina and Gil Vicente, who wrote in the 15th and 16th centuries, while among those who wrote autos when they were at the height of their success was Lope de Vega, who composed no fewer than four hundred.
Vega and Chinese
In late summer, the stars Altair and Vega are high in the night sky, and the Chinese tell the following love story, of which there are many variations:
In Chinese mythology, The Princess and the Cowherd, this star and γ Aql, are children of Niulang ( 牛郎, The Cowherd, Altair ) and Zhinü ( 織女, The Princess, Vega ).
) In Chinese mythology, The Princess and the Cowherd, this star and β Aql, are children of Niulang ( 牛郎, The Cowherd, Altair ) and Zhinü ( 織女, The Princess, Vega ).
Vega and legend
The Japanese Tanabata festival, in which Vega is known as orihime ( 織姫 ), is also based on this legend.
The story of Votan was further associated with the Atlantis legend by Lewis Spence in Atlantis in America ( 1925 ), who identifies Votan as " a local name for Quetzalcoatl " and provides a synopsis of the account by Núñez de la Vega.
According to chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, these ancient times coincide with the legend of Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo, who emerged from the waters of Lake Titicaca to found the Inca Empire.
The names of the two celestial stars of the Tanabata legend, Vega and Altair were combined to form Vegalta.
In 1978, he discovered a young singer by the name of Tony Vega, who was to become a legend among salsa singers in his own right.
Vega and about
Irregularities in Vega's disk also suggest the presence of at least one planet, likely to be about the size of Jupiter, in orbit around Vega.
Magnetic fields of roughly 30 gauss have been reported for Vega, compared to about 1 gauss for the Sun.
At the high end of estimates for the rotation velocity for Vega is along the equator ( for a rotation period of about 12. 5 hours ), which is 87. 6 % of the speed that would cause the star to start breaking up from centrifugal effects.
This is seen as a variation in effective temperature over the star: the polar temperature is near 10, 000 K, while the equatorial temperature is 7, 600 K. As a result, if Vega were viewed along the plane of its equator, then the luminosity would be about half the apparent luminosity as viewed from the pole.
Thus, in terms of abundances, only about 0. 54 % of Vega consists of elements heavier than helium.
The observed helium to hydrogen ratio in Vega is 0. 030 ± 0. 005, which is about 40 % lower than the Sun.
Vega will eventually become the brightest star in the sky in around 210, 000 years, will attain a peak brightness of magnitude – 0. 81 in about 290, 000 years and will be the brightest star in the sky for about 270, 000 years.
This group contains about 16 stars, including Alpha Librae, Alpha Cephei, Castor, Fomalhaut and Vega.
Over the years Vega wrote a four volume textbook Vorlesungen über die Mathematik ( Lectures about Mathematics ).
In 1781 Vega tried to push further his idea in the Austrian Habsburg monarchy about the usage of the decimal metric system of units.
In about 5, 500 years, the pole will have moved near the position of the star Alderamin ( Alpha Cephei ), and in 12, 000 years, Vega ( Alpha Lyrae ) will become our north star, but it will be about six degrees from the true north celestial pole.
The second source which is more famous than Sánchez ' and goes into more detail about Juan Diego is the Huei tlamahuiçoltica ( which include " Nican Mopohua ") written in Classical Nahuatl by Mexican priest and lawyer Luis Laso de la Vega and published in 1649.
The Vega probes to Venus and comet Halley launched in 1985 also used this basic Venera design, including landers but also atmospheric balloons which relayed data for about two days.
In about 8, 000 years it will be the bright star Deneb ( left ), and in about 12, 000 years, Vega ( left center ).
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The municipality comprises about 6, 500 islands in the Vega Archipelago.
The Vega images showed the nucleus to be about 14 km long with a rotation period of about 53 hours.
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