Vega

Vega is the brightest star in Lyra and the fifth-brightest in the night sky, about 25 light-years away. It was the first star other than the Sun to be photographed and was used to define the zero point of the photometric brightness scale.

It was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be again around the year 13,700. It has about 2.1 times the Sun's mass and about a tenth of its age.