Vega

GPTKB entity

Statements (61)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:star
gptkbp:age 455 million years
gptkbp:apparentMagnitude 0.03
gptkbp:catalogue gptkb:Gliese_Catalogue
gptkb:Henry_Draper_Catalogue
gptkb:Hipparcos_Catalogue
gptkb:Bright_Star_Catalogue
gptkbp:constellation gptkb:Lyra
gptkbp:culturalSignificance featured in the Chinese Qixi Festival
featured in the Japanese Tanabata Festival
featured in the Korean Chilseok Festival
important in many mythologies
gptkbp:declination +38° 47′ 1″
gptkbp:diameter 2.362 solar radii
gptkbp:discoveredBy ancient astronomers
gptkbp:distanceFromEarth 25 light-years
gptkbp:eclipticLatitude 281.2°
61.5°
gptkbp:futurePoleStar will be North Pole star around 13,727 AD
gptkbp:galacticLatitude 19.2°
67.5°
gptkbp:hasDebrisDisk yes
gptkbp:hasExoplanet no confirmed exoplanets
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Vega
gptkbp:IAUApprovedName gptkb:Vega
gptkbp:isPoleStar was North Pole star around 12,000 BC
gptkbp:luminosity 40.12 times Sun
gptkbp:mass 2.1 solar masses
gptkbp:metallicity -0.5 [Fe/H]
gptkbp:neighboringStars gptkb:Altair
gptkb:Deneb
gptkbp:notableFor first star other than the Sun to be photographed
first star to have its spectrum recorded
one of the brightest stars in the night sky
gptkbp:otherName gptkb:Alpha_Lyrae
gptkb:BD+38_3238
gptkb:FK5_700
gptkb:Gliese_721
gptkb:HD_172167
gptkb:HIP_91262
gptkb:HR_7001
gptkb:SAO_67174
gptkbp:parallax 130.23 mas
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Summer_Triangle
gptkbp:rightAscension 18h 36m 56.3s
gptkbp:rotationPeriod 274 km/s
gptkbp:SIMBADID gptkb:Vega
gptkbp:spectralType A0V
gptkbp:temperature 9602 K
gptkbp:usedAs standard for zero point in photometric system
gptkbp:variableStar suspected, but not confirmed
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Haninge
gptkb:Nord
gptkb:Stars
gptkb:Northwest_Passage_expeditions
gptkb:stellar_classification
gptkb:Tanabata
gptkb:ATI_Radeon
gptkb:Guiana_Space_Centre
gptkb:Frontiers_Records
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5