Vega

¹ American  

[vee-guh, vey-] / ˈvi gə, ˈveɪ- /

noun

1. Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.

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Vega ² American  

[vey-guh, ve-gah] / ˈveɪ gə, ˈvɛ gɑ /

noun

1. Lope de Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.

2. Garcilaso de la Vega.

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Vega ¹ British  

/ ˈveɪɡə, ˈbeɣa /

noun

1. See Lope de Vega

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Vega ² British  

/ ˈviːɡə /

noun

1. the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and one of the most conspicuous in the N hemisphere. It is part of an optical double star having a faint companion. Distance: 25.3 light years; spectral type: A0V

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Vega Scientific  

/ vē′gə,vā′gə /

1. A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra.

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Etymology

Origin of Vega

1630–40; < Medieval Latin < Arabic ( al-nasr-al- ) wāqiʿ (the) falling (eagle), originally designating the three stars Alpha, Epsilon and Zeta Lyrae

Example Sentences

Its corners are marked by Vega in the constellation of Lyra, the Harp, Altair in Aquila, the Eagle and Deneb in Cygnus, the Swan.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Under the news network’s editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, on-air correspondents Scott Pelley, Cecilia Vega, Sharyn Alfonsi and the program’s executive producer, Tanya Simon, have all been ousted from the legacy newsmagazine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

She ended her network’s relationship with two of “60 Minutes’” younger correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The network parted ways last week with Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, another correspondent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Vega needed something like that—so he wouldn’t think on it too much.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore