A relatively small but distinctive constellation of the northern summer sky, lying westward of the prominent cross shape of Cygnus. Vega, one of the brighteststars in the sky, falls within the boundaries of Lyra, while the unmistakable shape of the Ring Nebula can be found southward of Vega between the starsSheliak and Sulafat.
A small, but nonetheless prominent, northern constellation centred around the brilliant
starVega, and containing the famous Ring Nebula.
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