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Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...
A step-by-step guide to help identify the constellations, ... Farther south on the Milky Way is the bright star Altair and its parent constellation, Aquila the Eagle.
NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...
Aquila Constellation, the eagle-shaped cluster of stars, will appear all of July in the east in the first half of the night, anchored by its brightest star, Altair.
I like to think of our next target, the constellation of Aquila, the eagle, as a little sister to Cygnus: it is also named after a bird, has a similar cross shape and sits next to Cygnus in the sky.
Altair, the brightest star in the Aquila constellation, is the closest star in the triangle, just over 16 light-years away. Despite its proximity, ...
The wobbling movement of an old giant star in the Aquila constellation revealed that it was in an orbital dance with a dormant black hole, and it’s the third such dormant black hole spotted by Gaia.