Orpheus took their advice. Once there, his song deeply moved Hades and his wife Persephone and they agreed to return Eurydice to the world of the living on one condition: Orpheus should walk in front of her and not look back until they both had reached the upper world. Orpheus and Eurydice started walking and, as much as he wanted to, he did not look back.
However, he forgot that they both had to arrive to the upper world before he could turn. As soon as he reached it, he turned around, but Eurydice was not quite there yet and she disappeared from his sight, for good this time. Orpheus met his end at the hands of Thracian Maenads, who ripped him to shreds for not honouring Dionysus.
His lyre was carried to heaven by the Muses, who also collected the fragments of his body and buried them below Mount Olympus. Vega is the brightest star in the Lyra constellation. With an apparent magnitude of 0. Vega is also the second brightest star in the northern sky; only Arcturus is brighter. The star is Vega was the first star other than the Sun to be photographed and the first one to have its spectrum recorded.
The star belongs to the spectral class A0V, which makes it a white dwarf. It was the northern pole star around the year 12, BC and will be again around the year 13, Vega is 2.
It is believed to be about million years old, which is about a half of its life expectancy. The star is believed to have a circumstellar disk of dust, as it emits excess infrared radiation. It may have at least one planet the size of Jupiter in its orbit. Vega is easy to find in the night sky because it is bright and also because it is part of a familiar summer asterism, the Summer Triangle , which it forms with the stars Altair in the constellation Aquila and Deneb in Cygnus.
Vega is located at the vertex of the triangle, and easy to find because the constellation Cygnus, the Swan , is easily recognizable in the sky. Gamma Lyrae is the second brightest star in the constellation.
It has an apparent magnitude of 3. The star is a blue-white giant. It belongs to the spectral class B9 III. Gamma Lyrae is sometimes known by its traditional names, Sulafat Sulaphat and Jugum.
The star has a radius 15 times that of the Sun. Beta Lyrae is a double star system. The Beta Lyrae system has a variable luminosity, ranging from 3. The variability was first discovered by the British astronomer John Goodricke in The components are so close together that they form a spectroscopic binary star, one that cannot be resolved into individual components with optical telescopes.
The two orbit each other with a period of As a result, their apparent magnitude varies. The primary star has the stellar classification of B7II — it is a blue-white bright giant. The secondary component is also believed to be a class B star.
The B7II star, now the less massive component, was once the more massive component in the system. As is evolved into a giant, it transferred most of its mass to the other star, as the two are in close orbit. Vega gleams at the western point of the triangle. But there are other interesting sights to explore here as well.
Epsilon Lyrae, at the northern point of the little triangle where Vega is located, is known as the "double-double" star. Those with good eyesight discover that Epsilon is really a close pair of stars.
Binoculars readily separate the two, while a moderately large telescope shows each one divided again into two stars.
Between this winking star and its neighbor, Sulafat, is the famous Ring Nebula, faintly glowing like a ghostly doughnut or a cosmic smoke ring.
Visible only in large telescopes, the nebula appears as an oval ring around a star. Jaipur Latitude: Longitude: Timezone: Color scheme Light Night mode. Site hosted by. Vega mag 0. NGC mag 9. Messier 56 mag 8. NGC mag Sulafat mag 3. Sheliak mag 3. Spanish: Lira. Ridpath, Star Tales: Lyr. SEDs Constellation page: Lyr. Wikipedia: Lyr. Main menu. Special Stars The bright star Vega is a brilliant bluish-white, almost straight overhead on late summer evenings. Ptolemy advised his readers that to comprehend the great cycles of the stars provides serenity in the midst of continually changing earthly life: Above all things, astronomy can make men see clearly.
From the constancy, order, symmetry and calm which are associated with the divine, astronomy makes its followers lovers of this divine beauty, accustoming them and reforming their natures, as it were, to a similar spiritual state.
Shakespeare tells us that when Orpheus would play his lyre: everything that heard him play, even the billows of the sea, hung their heads, and then lay by. Bode portrayed Lyra as a vulture. Image Representation Date Image. What is RA? What is culmination? Midnight culminations What is Decl? IAU Star Map. Constellation Links Allen, Star Names:
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