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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5001.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5001. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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The star α Lyrae, the only bright star in the constellation. Its name, formerly Wega, derives from the Arabic Al Waki, `the Swooping (or Falling) Eagle', hence the form Alvaka used on some seventeenth century celestial globes. In ancient Greek and Latin writings it sometimes shared the constellation name Lyra, and consequently appears as `the Harp Star' in some later texts. It is the dominant com...

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