RA 279.2346° · Dec 38.7837° · star
15 more points to reach Anomaly.
Vega is an epic star. It lies about 25 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Lyr, shines at apparent magnitude 0.03 and has spectral type A0Vvar.
Its spectrum reads A0Vvar — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for Vega in the constellation Lyr. At apparent magnitude 0.03, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Vega is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Vega scores 63 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Brilliant (mag < 1), Has a proper name, White A-type star, Main-sequence star, Blue-white star and Vega — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.