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- - - - Alpha Lyrae (α Lyrae, abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr)
      - 2nd brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.
      - 25 light-years from the Sun
      - “arguably the next most important star in the sky after the Sun.”
      - was the northern pole star around 12,000 BC and will be so again around the year 13,727
      - first star other than the Sun to be photographed
      - first to have its spectrum recorded
      - 2.1 times as massive as the Sun
      - fifth-brightest star in all
  - - - 2,000 light-years from Earth
      - Planetary Nebula
      - Discovered in 1779 by Antoine Darquier
      - Between 6,000 and 8,000 years old
      - Central star itself is a white dwarf
    - - Globular Cluster
      - 32900 LY from Earth
- - - - other names
        
        Vultur Cadens "Falling Vulture"
        
        Aquila Cadens "Falling Eagle"
- - - - his music was able to quell the voices of the dangerous Sirens
        
        Orpheus married Eurydice, a nymph.
        
        While fleeing from an attack by Aristaeus, she stepped on a snake that bit her, killing her
        
        Orpheus entered the Underworld, where the music from his lyre charmed Hades.
        
        Hades relented and let Orpheus bring Eurydice back, on the condition that he never once look back until outside
        
        Unfortunately, near the very end, Orpheus faltered and looked back, causing Eurydice to be left in the Underworld forever
        
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      - .Orpheus was the greatest musician of his age,
        
        Orpheus's music was said to be so great that even inanimate objects such as trees, streams, and rocks could be charmed
      - Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia (one of the Pleiades). Hermes fashioned the lyre from the shell of a tortoise that he found browsing outside his cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. Hermes cleaned out the shell, pierced its rim and tied across it seven strings of cow gut, the same as the number of the Pleiades.
  - - - granddaughter of the celestial emperor.
        
        made beautiful silks for the gods and goddesses
        
        fell in love with a lowly cowherd, represented by the star Altair in Aquila.
        
        they married and started a family, both began to neglect their duties
        
        celestial emperor harshly separated them, placing them on opposite sides of the Milky Way
        
        Cowherd was left to bring up their two sons, represented by the stars either side of Altair.
        
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