Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physicist, and found to be 22,000,000 miles or about two and a half times the diameter of our own sun. Its distance is known to be about twelve light years. To the east of Arcturus and Bootes is Lyra, a small constellation marked by the bright star Vega, from which the light emitted is a hundred and thirty years reaching the earth. It is toward the region of the sky marked by this bright star that the spectroscope shows the sun and the solar system to be travelling 12 miles a second, or 400,000,000 miles each...