Aquila has three stars brighter than magnitude 3.00 and two stars located within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) of Earth. The brightest star in the constellation is Altair, Alpha Aquilae (spectral class A7 V), which is also the 12th brightest star in the sky. Altair is also the nearest star in Aquila, at a distance of only 16. read more
Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Its brightest star, Altair, is one vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism. read more
Altair is among the 20 brightest stars in the sky, at magnitude 0.8, and also one of the closest first magnitude stars to us, only 17 light-years away. read more
The brightest star in the constellation is Altair, Alpha Aquilae (spectral class A7 V), which is also the 12th brightest star in the sky. Altair is also the nearest star in Aquila, at a distance of only 16.77 light years from Earth. read more