Altair
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Altair is the brightest star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from α Aquilae an
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila.
Direct image of Altair, taken with the CHARA array
Altair
Star
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A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth
The Sun, a G-type main-sequence star, the closest to Earth
A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Stars in the night sky
Spitzer Space Telescope infrared image showing a multitude of stars in the Milky Way galaxy