Vega

/vee"geuh, vay"-/, n.

Astron. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.

[1630-40; < ML < Ar (al-nasr-al-) waqi' (the) falling (eagle), orig. designating the three stars Alpha, Epsilon and Zeta Lyrae]

/vay"geuh/; Sp. /be"gah/, n.

1. Lope de /law"pe dhe/, (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio), 1562-1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.

2. See Garcilaso de la Vega.

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(as used in expressions)

Garcilaso de la Vega

Vega Lope de

Lope Félix de Vega Carpio

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▪ star

also called  Alpha Lyrae 

 brightest star in the northern constellation Lyra and fifth brightest in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of 0.03. It is also one of the Sun's closer neighbours, at a distance of about 25 light-years. Vega's spectral type is A (white) and its luminosity class V (main sequence). It will become the northern polestar by about AD 14,000 because of the precession of the equinoxes.

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