Vega
At a glance
- Type
- Star
- Distance
- Nearby (under 1,000 light years)
- Naked eye
- Seen without a telescope
- Known since
- Before telescopes (before 1600)
- Colour
- White, Blue
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- In 1850 Vega became the first star other than the Sun ever to be photographed.
- Many thousands of years ago Vega was the North Star, and in about 12,000 years it will be again.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q3427 · All space objects · All entries