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Lyra   /lˈaɪrə/   Listen
Lyra

noun
1.
A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco; contains the star Vega.



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Megaderma lyra


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"Lyra" Quotes from Famous Books



... "they are indeed suns, but suns at an enormous distance. The nearest of these millions of stars, whose rays can reach us, is Vega, that star in Lyra which you observe near the zenith, and that is fifty thousand millions of leagues distant. Its brightness, therefore, cannot affect your vision. But our own sun, which will rise to-morrow, is only distant thirty-eight millions ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... tuba, quaeve lyra flatibus inclita vel fidibus divitis omnipotentis opus, quaeque fruenda patent ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius


Words linked to "Lyra" :   constellation, Megaderma lyra, Vega


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