Star
Vega
Vega is a white star 25.0 light-years away, seen as it was 25 years ago, shining 50 times as bright as the Sun.
The first star after the Sun to be photographed, and the star the brightness scale was calibrated on. It was the pole star around 12 000 BCE.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 25.0 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 0.03
- Spectral type
- A0Vvar
- Catalogue
- HIP 91262
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.