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The brightest star in the constellation is Vega, Alpha Lyrae, which is also the fifth brightest star in the sky, with an apparent magnitude of 0.03. The constellation contains six formally named stars.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Lyra, sorted by decreasing brightness.
The brightest star in the constellation is Vega (Alpha Lyrae), a main-sequence star of spectral type A0Va. [15] Only 7.7 parsecs distant, [16] Vega is a Delta Scuti variable, varying between magnitudes −0.02 and 0.07 over 0.2 days. [17]
8 mar 2016 · Lyra (“the Lyre”) is one of the smaller constellations, taking up an area of just 286 sq/deg of the northern sky between latitudes +90 and -40 degrees. It does, however, contains the 5th brightest star in the sky, Vega, which also forms part of the famous asterism of stars known as the Summer Triangle .
The main drawcard for naked-eyed viewing of Lyra is its brightest and closest star, Vega. Lyra is a small constellation in the northern part of the sky – but it contains one of the best known stars from science and film: Vega (α Lyrae).
5 sie 2019 · The constellation Lyra offers bright and unusual stars for binocular explorers. Brilliant Vega in Lyra rules over the early evening sky this month, towering near the zenith as twilight...
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]
