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  

/ 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 ² British  

/ ˈveɪɡə, ˈbeɣa /

noun

1. See Lope de Vega

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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

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The program’s star correspondent Scott Pelley was fired last month after he confronted management over the dismissals of executive producer Tanya Simon and his on-air colleagues Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

I walk east, past the embedded brass quotes on Calle de las Huertas, where Golden Age scribes Cervantes and Vega and the Generation of 1927’s Federico Lorca and Valle-Inclán are literally underfoot.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

Cecilia Vega, another “60 Minutes” correspondent, and the show’s executive producer were also let go in May.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

And Sunny even gave one to Vega, her archenemy.

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