who is on the far side of the river, the Milky Way. However, one day per year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, magpies make a bridge so that Niulang and Zhinü can be together again for a brief encounter. The Japanese Tanabata festival, in which Vega is known as Orihime (織姫), is also based on this legend. In Zoroastrianism, Vega was sometimes associated with Vanant, a minor divinity whose name means "conqueror". The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria, Australia, named it as Neilloan, "the flying loan". In the Srimad Bhagavatam, Shri Krishna tells Arjuna, that among the Nakshatras he is Abhijit, which remark indicates the auspiciousness of this Nakshatra. Medieval astrologers counted Vega as one of the Behenian stars and related it to chrysolite and winter savory. Cornelius Agrippa listed its kabbalistic sign under Vultur cadens, a literal Latin translation of the Arabic name. Medieval star charts also listed the alternate names Waghi, Vagieh and Veka for this star. W. H. Auden's 1933 poem "A Summer Night (to Geoffrey Hoyland)" famously opens with the couplet, "Out on the lawn I lie in bed,/Vega conspicuous overhead". Vega became the first star to have a car named after it with the French Facel Vega line of cars from 1954 onwards, and later on, in America, Chevrolet launched the Vega in 1971. Other vehicles named after Vega include the ESA's Vega launch system and the Lockheed Vega aircraft. Notes References External links A-type main-sequence stars Delta Scuti variables Circumstellar disks Hypothetical planetary systems Castor Moving Group Lyra (constellation) Lyrae, Alpha 7001 Durchmusterung objects Lyrae, 03 0721 172167 091262 Lambda Boötis stars Northern pole stars Vega