All About Space

4 Vega (Epsilon Lyrae)

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Lying just over one-and-a-half degrees north of brilliant-blue Vega, Epsilon Lyrae is one of the most famous double stars in the sky. A pair of binoculars will show it as two stars of equal brightness very close together, and a telescope shows each of those stars is a double too – hence its nickname, ‘the Double Double’.

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