a trip to the STAR, Vega, 25 light years away in the constellation of Lyra ...

there aren’t that many stars between Earth and Vega so you don’t get much of a sense of movement on the way to Vega but once we get there we can see just how fast Vega is spinning, so much so, that it is significantly bulging around its equator which results in the equator being dimmer than the poles because, essentially, the photons created in the core have less distance to travel to reach the surface! Vega’s poles are in approximate alignment with Earth so Vega appears to be brighter than it should be for