Altair is the final stop on our trip around the Summer Triangle! The last star in the asterism to rise for Northern Hemisphere observers before summer begins, brilliant Altair is high overhead at ...

Using a suite of four telescopes, astronomers have captured an image of Altair, one of the closest stars to our own and a fixture in the summer sky. While astronomers have recently imaged a few of the ...

It was 40 years ago that two Japanese astronomers, Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi, sent a radio signal towards a star called Altair, 16.7 light years away. Using a Stanford University ...

Scientists have captured the first close-up image of a sun-like star beyond the solar system. The image of the surface of Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, was captured in ...

On the next clear night, go outside around 7:30 PM and look toward the west about one outstretched hand-span above the horizon. There you’ll see a bright, bluish-white star, called Altair. Altair is ...