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Altair, or Alpha Aquilae
Brightest star in the constellation Aquila
and the 12th brightest star in the sky. It is
a white star 16 light years away and forms
the so-called Summer Triangle with the stars
Deneb (in the constellation Cygnus) and Vega
(in Lyra).