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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 Greek-Roman mythology . Its brightest star, Altair , is one vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism .
NGC 6751, also known as the Glowing Eye Nebula, [2] is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila. It is estimated to be about 6,500 light-years (2.0 kiloparsecs) away. [2] NGC 6751 was discovered by the astronomer Albert Marth on 20 July 1863. [4]
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila. α Aquilae (Latinised to Alpha Aquilae) is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name Altair has been used since medieval times. It is an abbreviation of the Arabic phrase النسر الطائر Al-Nisr Al-Ṭa'ir, "the flying eagle ". [22]
This is the list of 143 notable stars in the constellation Aquila, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F G. Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class ...
NGC 6790 is a young, compact [2] planetary nebula with a high surface brightness [4] located in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. Imaging by the Hubble Space Telescope shows elongated shells surrounding the central star. The distance to this nebula is poorly known, but is estimated at 19 kilolight-years, and it is roughly 6,000 years old.
Theta Aquilae (θ Aql, θ Aquilae), also named Antinous, [8] is a binary star in the constellation Aquila.The combined apparent visual magnitude of the pair is 3.26, [2] making it the fourth-brightest member of the constellation.
This unofficial constellation is called the Summer Triangle. Each star in the triangle is part of its own constellation. ... And Altair is the eye of the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. The ...
NGC 6709 is an open cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Aquila, some 5° to the southwest of the star Zeta Aquilae. [4] It is situated toward the center of the galaxy [5] at a distance of 3,510 light-years. [2] This cluster has a Trumpler class of IV 2 m, and is considered moderately rich [5] with 305 [6] member stars.