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VEGA (Alpha Lyrae). One of the most famed stars of the sky, ... Its white color and apparent brightness made it a basic standard against which the apparent magnitudes of other stars are compared.
The idea: It would be nice to have at least a vague idea of what color stars are.
for hot class A, B, or O stars, U-B is a better color temperature indicator.
Vega is of particular interest because it was one of the first stars for which a disk of dust was discovered surrounding a star.
Scientists announced that the two giant clumps of dust in the ring surrounding the star Vega may be planets.
On February 16th, The Color Purple's Brandon Dixon, Felicia P. Fields, Elizabeth Withers-Mendes and more will perform at Macy's Herald Square...
(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Vega from the Nearby Stars Database.)
Learn all about the brightest stars in the night sky, and then find them without any help from a telescope!
Both approaches have proven themselves powerful come Oscar time. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon walked away winners for the 2005 movies "Capote" and "Walk the Line," respectively....
The other five stars (Saiph, Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka, Bellatrix - bottom up) are blue as well but appear white since our eye loses color perception when looking at fainter objects.
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