what can you tell me About the Star Vega???

Question

I know it is 3 times larger than the Sun.

Answer 1

Vega (α Lyr / α Lyrae / Alpha Lyrae) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, and the fifth brightest star in the sky. It is the second brightest star in the Northern night sky, after Arcturus, and can often be seen near the zenith in the mid-northern latitudes during the Northern Hemisphere summer.

Answer 2

Vega was a planet mentioned a number of times in Foundation by Isaac Asimov. It was capital of the Vega Province in the Galactic Empire, one of the wealthiest provinces in the entire Galaxy. Until the revolt of the Anacreon Prefect, it traded with Terminus, capital of the Foundation. One of the known quantities it exported was tobacco, of notably high quality.


Vega (Alpha Lyrae), one of the brightest stars in the night sky, has appeared in many science fiction stories


In Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Vega, or the Vegan planetary system, is understood to be an important business world, above all exporting Vegan tobacco. When Terminus, the home planet of Foundation, is isolated from the culture and sophistication of the innermost parts of the Galaxy, there is no more "mild Vegan tobacco" available, a fact repeatedly referred to by the characters of the first novel.
In Carl Sagan's science fiction novel Contact (and the film adaptation), Earth receives a message from an extraterrestrial transmitter array orbiting Vega.
In James Blish's Cities in Flight series, the Vega system is home to a civilization called the Vegan Tyranny, which the Earthmen must defeat before expanding out into the galaxy. (Blish also name-checks the Vegan Tyranny in his adaptation of the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday", though it is not mentioned in the script as filmed.)
In Jack Vance's series, the Demon Princes, Vega is the parent star of the planets Aloysius, Boniface and Cuthbert. Aloysius, in particular, features prominently in the five books.
In Roger Zelazny's book This Immortal, the Vegans are a species of humanoid aliens who use the Earth as a vacation resort.
In James H. Schmitz's Agent of Vega, humans settled round Vega are building a new and better empire to replace the original fallen Empire of Earth.
In Ivan Efremov's book Andromeda Nebula, expedition from Earth has visited Vegan system and found it to be lifeless.
In the Perry Rhodan series, book 5 The Vega Sector, book 6 The Secrets of the Time Vault, and book 6 Fortress of the Six Moons, Perry Rhodan and his crew fly to Vega and help the inhabitants of the 8th planet defeat the invaders from "Topsid". In the process they discover artifacts left by a very advanced race from whom they get the secret of immortality.

Answer 3

Beautiful blue-white star is Lyre. Part of the three that make up the Summer Triangle: Altair in the Eagle, Vega in Lyre and Cygnus the Swan, Was at one time our pole star.

Answer 4

it was the focus of the movie contact with jodi foster. where they build a worm hole generator to go to the vega system, good movie.

Answer 5

Read all about it !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega

Answer 6

2 seconds of searching online reveals it is 25.04 +/- .074 light years away.

Answer 7

suzanne vega is a hottie!!!