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	Vega (Alpha Lyrae)
		In 1983, based on observations by the Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS), Vega became one of the first stars to be discovered with a large luminous infrared-radiating halo that suggests a circumstellar cloud of warm dust.
		Since Vega seems to be rotating with its pole directed toward Earth, the dust cloud probably represents a face-on disk that may not be unlike the disk surrounding the Sun and that contains the planets.
		Instead, calculations show that an eccentric planet traps dust in two main concentrations at different distances from the star, at positions outside the planet orbit that are generally not in line with the star.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/V/Vega.html (577 words)

	Vega
		Vega was the first star to be photographed, exposed for 100 seconds with the daguerreotype process through a 15-inch refractor at Harvard Observatory on the night of July 16-17, 1850.
		Vega is a Delta Scuti type of pulsating variable star (over 0.1903 days) whose slight variations have been a matter of debate since their detection in 1918 by Paul Guthnick (1879-1947) and Richard Prager (1883-1945) (Vasil'yev et al, 1989).
		Their best explanation for the presence of the second disk is that an unseen planet with as much as 20 times the mass of Jupiter in an orbit within the secondary disk is gravitationally sweeping up dust and icy planetesimals from the primary disk (more from hubblesite.org).
	www.solstation.com /stars/vega.htm (1879 words)

	Vega - Crystalinks
		Vega is the brightest star in Lyra, and the fifth brightest star in the sky.
		Therefore the visual magnitude of Vega was decided to be, by definition, zero at all wavelengths for many years (this is no longer the case, as the apparent magnitude zero point is now most commonly defined in terms of a particular numerically specified flux).
		The flux density of Vega drops rapidly in the infrared, and is near 100 Jy at 5 micrometres.
	www.crystalinks.com /vega.html (1625 words)

	Venus - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Swirling clouds of sulfur and sulfuric acid obscure Venus’s surface and inhibited study of the planet from Earth until technology permitted space vehicles, outfitted with probes, to visit it.
		These probes determined that Venus is the hottest of the planets, with a surface temperature of about 460° C (about 860° F).
		Scientists believe that a greenhouse effect causes the extreme temperature, hypothesizing that the planet’s thick clouds and dense atmosphere trap energy from the sun.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461517899/Venus.html (88 words)

	New evidence for Solar-like planetary system around nearby star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vega is the fifth brightest star in the sky and the third brightest visible in the Northern hemisphere.
		Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the Harp.
		The distance between the star and the planet is equivalent to twice that between the Sun and Neptune.
	www.pparc.ac.uk /Nw/vega_planet.asp (1277 words)

	Manual:Planet types - VsWiki
		University planets have populations ranging from about three hundred thousand to two billion, although occasionally the designation is also used for planets with much lower populations on which the only habitation is a single large university or research facility.
		Oceanic planets are lifebearing, although biodiversity may be reduced by the homogeneity of the environment (except for those planets with reefs or reef-analogues.) Many oceanic planets are the results of terraforming efforts and as such have a terran biota.
		Overgrown planets are a subset of bio-diverse planets in which the planet is judged to be uninhabitable or undesirable based on the indigenous life forms.
	vegastrike.sourceforge.net /wiki/Manual:Planet_types (2661 words)

	What's New at the CfA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vega, located 25 light years away in the constellation Lyra, is the brightest star in the summer sky.
		The new observations of Vega's dust cloud were made at a wavelength of 1.3 millimeters with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) of the Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimetrique (IRAM), an array of five 15-meter (49-foot) diameter antennas located in the French Alps.
		Instead, calculations by the astronomers show that an eccentric planet traps dust in two main concentrations at different distances from the star, at positions outside the planet orbit that are generally not in line with the star.
	cfa-www.harvard.edu /newtop/previous/011802.html (834 words)

	Joint Astronomy Centre - Astronomers discover possible new Solar Systems in formation around the nearby stars Vega and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vega, in the constellation of Lyra (the Lyre) and the brightest star in our summer sky, is the oldest star of the three at 350 million years old.
		While the blobs in the Vega and Beta Pictoris images may be dust-enshrouded giant planets, planets are not supposed to be able to form at such great distances from stars, the researchers noted.
		Noting that none of the stars has retained a large enough mass of dust to form planets, the astronomers say that if these stars are orbited by planets, they have most likely already formed, or are well on their way to forming.
	outreach.jach.hawaii.edu /pressroom/1998_vega (1700 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Dusty trails may reveal new planet
		Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, sweeps out a pattern of dust that would be visible from Vega with the same type of telescopes available on Earth.
		The tug of gravity from these planets produces slight wobbles in the paths of their suns, which can be detected by changes in their light.
		From this perspective, the planet seems to be in an elliptical orbit that takes it almost 3 billion miles from Vega, or about the distance from the sun to Neptune.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/02.14/01-vega.html (919 words)

	SPACE.com -- Unmasking Vega: Solar System Like Ours Emerges
		Vega is surrounded by an interesting dusty ring, which astronomers found in the early 1980s.
		Vega's dusty ring, on the outskirts of its gravitational influence, is a second-generation phenomenon, a product of planet and comet evolution rather than the seeds of their birth.
		One, with a Jupiter-sized planet in a Jupiter-like orbit, was
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031208.html (929 words)

	The Venus-Halley Missions
		Venus is a very dry planet, but water vapor plays a critical role in the chemistry of its atmosphere, being necessary for the formation of the cloud aerosol of sulpuric and phosphoric acid.
		A carrier wave from the main Vega spacecraft was simultaneously recorded, allowing a very precise measurement of the relative distance between the two transmitters.
		During the night-time portion of the journey, considerable variations in light levels were detected by the photometer, possibly due to thin spots in the lower cloud layer, revealing the thermal glow of the planet's surface.
	www.mentallandscape.com /V_Vega.htm (3003 words)

	Team Battle
		Vega and the red team were from the second planet, which had a mild climate, forest, oceans, and mountains.
		Vega brought her right boot down to crush the enemy’s head, but the woman rolled away and stood in a fighting stance.
		Vega suspected she knew what their destination was, since the desert was expanding so that she couldn’t even see the trees anymore.
	isis_star.tripod.com /poems_and_stories/team_battle.htm (1625 words)

	Vega's Likeness for New Planets :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		All of the hundred or so planets that have been discovered around other stars have been very large gaseous (Jupiter-like) planets orbiting close to their star.
		The wide orbit of the Neptune-like planet means that there is plenty of room inside it for small rocky planets similar to the Earth - the Holy Grail for astronomers wanting to know whether we are alone in the Universe.
		Vega was the first star ever to be photographed.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article712.html (752 words)

	Planet Quest: News Article
		SCUBA false-color image of the Vega disc, with the position of the star () and the predicted position and direction of the planet* (x) indicated.
		Although astronomers have already detected more than 100 planets around stars other than the Sun, none are of the type believed to be capable of sustaining life as we know it.
		The star Vega is located 25 light-years from Earth and forms part of the constellation Lyra (the Harp).
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /news/vega.cfm (348 words)

	Vega, Alpha Lyrae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A0 Va Vega, the brightest star in Lyra and one of the brightest in the Northern Sky, is prominent as one of the stars forming the Summer Triangle.
		Vega was probably also the first star to have its parallax measured (Struve 1837, published 1840).
		Vega was also the first individual star to have a car named after "her", the Chevrolet Vega.
	www.seds.org /~spider/spider/Misc/alphaLyr.html (216 words)

	Astrology The Planets
		The Planets are the "action" of the horoscope.
		This is because the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
		planet is also associated with courage and confidence.
	www.vegaattractions.com /astrology/planets.html (342 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Space: 1999 / Season Two
		Mentor, a scientist on the volcanic planet Psychon, begins to kidnap inhabitants from Moonbase Alpha in order to use their brains to power a biological computer he wants to use to transform the planet back into the paradise it once was; but Mentor's daughter, a metamorph named Maya, tries to stop her father's evil plans.
		While investigating a planet with lush vegetation, Maya picks a flower and immediately learns that harming any of the living vegetation on the planet is a crime requiring the death penalty.
		Koenig takes and Eagle to the planet, where he learns that the planet is really an unhabitable wasteland and set a plan in motion to explode the remaining nuclear waste on the Moon to shift the Moon's course away from the planet.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /scifi/other/1999-02.htm (1500 words)

	Delta Vega - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Delta Vega was also mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for "Conspiracy" (TNG).
		In "Yesterday's Enterprise" (TNG), Delta Vega was listed again, in an alternate timeline, in a tactical situation monitor showing progress of the Klingons in their war with the Federation.
		It is not clear if the name "Delta Vega" (seemingly written in stellar notation) should also apply to the star the planet orbits.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Delta_Vega (307 words)

	Detecting Hidden Planets by Analyzing Circumstellar Disks
		According to a team of NASA and university researchers, the gravitational influence of newborn planets weaves patterns in the dust disk from which they were formed, and the type of pattern depends on the planet's mass and orbital characteristics.
		For example, a common planet detection method is to use the wobble produced in a star's motion by the gravitational pull of unseen massive planets orbiting it.
		According to the researchers, the gravitational influence of newborn planets weaves patterns in the dust disk from which they are forming, and the type of pattern depends on the planet's mass and orbital characteristics.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /gsfc/spacesci/origins/dustdisk.htm (1474 words)

	SPACE.com -- NightSky Friday: The Heavenly Harp
		Vega is the brightest of the three stars forming the large "Summer Triangle" consisting of Vega, Altair and Deneb.
		In January 2002, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that features observed in a cloud of dust swirling around Vega may be the signatures of an unseen planet in an eccentric orbit around the star.
		Vega also holds a rather unique place in the annals of astronomy as being the first star ever to be photographed.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/lyra_030912.html (723 words)

	Science News
		Although she cautions that astronomers haven't proved that the features they see have been sculpted by planets, theorists are using the newest data to refine estimates of the mass of proposed planets, their distance from their parent stars, and the shapes and tilts of their orbits.
		A lurking planet, she proposes, could generate such an abundance of small grains by generating collisions between rocky bodies in the neighborhood.
		The clumps in Vega's disk could be signs that a planet with a highly elongated path resides at a distance from its parent similar to that of the solar system's outer planets, Holman and his colleagues suggest in the April 20 Astrophysical Journal Letters.
	www.phschool.com /science/science_news/articles/dusty_disks_reveal.html (2101 words)

	Vega Force Cronicals
		With the most succsesfull rebel factions being the mercenaries for hire from the planet Vega the rebels were able to gain a firm foundation in order to compete with such a overpowering juggernaught.
		Alliences between mutiple planets were formed into 4 major alliences, The United Children of the Stars, The Iron Fist, The United Terran Sphere, and The 5 stars of the northern Sky.
		All the alliences tried to enlist the aid of Vega like they recived in the last war, One month later the Planet Vega Declairs war againstt all the other alliences turning the battle into a 4 on 1.
	www.angelfire.com /dragon/loke/vf_story.html (476 words)

	GameSpy: Vega$ Tycoon Review
		It may not be a luxury suite at the Bellagio, but Vega$ Tycoon is great fun for strategy gamers, empire builders, and anyone who's ever walked into a casino in Sin City.
		It's the open secret of Las Vegas: Everything in the city, from the lights to the shows to the pretty girls, is designed to funnel people through the casinos, get them to the tables, and then funnel them back out.
		Vega$ Tycoon is all about the environment of Las Vegas.
	pc.gamespy.com /pc/vega-tycoon/494222p1.html (695 words)

	Vega 5VK
		The Vega 5VK spacecraft was designed for a mission combining a flyby of the planet Venus followed by an encounter with Halley's Comet.
		In 1981, it was decided to cancel the 5VS orbiters and redesign the 5VP to expand the Halley research programme (this may have been in response to the cancellation of the US Halley probe the same year).
		The Vega 5VK spacecraft were fitted with scientific apparatus and equipment built in the USSR, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, German Democratic Republic, Poland, France, Federal Republic of Germany and Czechoslovakia.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/vega5vk.htm (615 words)

	Space Rangers 2 Review - Adventure Lantern
		You are recommended to visit different planets to acquire missions from their governors.
		As such, completing the missions assigned by planet governors is a good way to advance through the early stages.
		The simplest tasks are delivery requests that require your character to transfer cargo from one planet to another within a set number of days.
	www.adventurelantern.com /reviews/spaceRangers2/spaceRangers2.htm (3272 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Planet around the star Vega suggested in dust swirl
		Astronomers announced this week that features observed in the dust swirling around the nearby star Vega may be the signatures of an unseen planet in an eccentric orbit around the star.
		Two giant clumps of dust in the ring surrounding Vega may be signatures of an unseen planet orbiting the star in an eccentric orbit.
		Observations at millimeter wavelengths indicate that infalling dust is trapped in dynamical resonances by the gravitational influence of a planetary body.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0201/12vega (1332 words)

	The Official Suzanne Vega Website .::. Articles and Interviews: 1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Suzanne Vega used to represent quiet nights in, chanting by the living room altar.
		To Suzanne Vega??!!??" I suppose if you can dance to traffic noise, if you can dance to the sound of someone eating quiche, or raising their eyebrow, you could dance to Suzanne Vega.
		Vega's record company, AandM, had two options when they heard about the record-either take DNA to court or release the single themselves.
	www.suzannevega.com /about/1990/recordmirror.htm (552 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Smugglers of the Galaxy
		Landing on a planet exposes you to customs risks if you are carrying illegal goods or if you have a bounty on your head.
		You look at the planet you are on and try to see what you can buy at a low price and then sell the next turn on another planet that needs those items and will be willing to pay you more for them (either due to higher demand or because it is illegal).
		Any player who sells on a planet causes that planet to be immediately removed from the map and the bottom of the board.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10395.phtml (3035 words)

	Goldorak episode guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vega's latest plan is to flood the valley in which the ranch is located, having figured out that Goldorak's secret base is somewhere nearby.
		Princesse Fénicia is alive and well, and also believes herself to be the final survivor of her planet...
		And she is convinced that her planet was destroyed by Goldorak and its pilot, the infamous Actarus!
	www.vex.net /~guru/goldorak/goldora5.htm (1488 words)

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