Vega Star Research Paper

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The Vega has many properties and characteristics in the star. The Vega star is 25 light years away from the earth and the mass is 2.1 times bigger than the sun. It is about 455 million years old and each rotation period is 12.5 hours. The diameter is about 2.2 million miles, which is 2.5 times the Sun, the temperature is approximately 17,000 F (9,500C), the luminosity is about 40 times the Sun’s size, and the star type is is a white main sequence star, so it is in A class. Since it is a main sequence star, it fuses hydrogen into helium in its core, The Vega star is also known as the Alpha Lyrae and is in the Lyra constellation. It is a blur to white star and has a radius of 1.1 million miles, 2.5 times larger than the sun. The Vega star is

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