VEGA

also called Alpha Lyrae brightest star in the northern constellation Lyra and fourth brightest in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of 0.04. It is also one of the Sun's closer neighbours, at a distance of about 26 light-years. Vega's spectral type is A (white) and its luminosity class V (main sequence). It will become the northern polestar by about AD 14,000 because of the precession of the equinoxes.