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Vega, Lyra's brightest star, is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and forms a corner of the famed Summer Triangle asterism. Beta Lyrae is the prototype of a class of binary stars known as Beta Lyrae variables. These binary stars are so close to each other that they become egg-shaped and material flows from one to the other.
Theta Lyrae (θ Lyr) is a star in a trinary star system, in the constellation Lyra, approximately 760 light years away from Earth.Theta Lyrae is an orange bright giant star of the spectral type K0II, which means that it possesses a surface temperature of about 5,000 K, and is many times bigger and brighter, yet cooler, than the Sun.
Vega is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra. α Lyrae ( Latinised to Alpha Lyrae ) is the star's Bayer designation . The traditional name Vega (earlier Wega [ 15 ] ) comes from a loose transliteration of the Arabic word wāqi' ( Arabic : واقع ) meaning "falling" or "landing", via the phrase an-nasr al-wāqi' ( Arabic ...
The stars Zeta1 and Zeta2 Lyrae photographed with an amateur telescope by David Chifiriuc. The visual separation between the two stars is 43.7″ (in 2020).. ζ 1 Lyrae was discovered to be a spectroscopic binary by William Wallace Campbell and Heber Doust Curtis in 1905 from photographic plates taken at the Lick Observatory between 1902 and 1904. [12]
Eta Lyrae, a name Latinized from η Lyrae, is a likely binary star [11] system in the northern constellation of Lyra.It has the traditional name Aladfar / ə ˈ l æ d f ɑːr / and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.43. [2]
RR Lyrae is a variable star in the Lyra constellation, figuring in its west near to Cygnus. [10] As the brightest star in its class, [11] it became the eponym for the RR Lyrae variable class of stars [3] and it has been extensively studied by astronomers. [7] RR Lyrae variables serve as important standard candles that are used to measure ...
The star's photosphere has expanded to 290 times the size of the Sun, and is now radiating 10,200 times the luminosity of the Sun. It has cooled to 3,394 K (3,121 °C), [6] giving Delta 2 Lyrae a reddish hue typical of M-type stars. [10] Lyra with the δ Lyrae pair and surrounding cluster stars left of centre