What is the Altair star made of?

Altair has the stellar classification A7 V, indicating a white star that is still fusing hydrogen to helium in its core. Altair has 1.79 times the Sun's mass and an estimated radius between 1.63 and 2.03 times that of the Sun.
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Is the Altair star brighter than the Sun?

Altair is also the least luminous. From its distance of 16.7 light years, we find it to be 10.6 times brighter than the Sun, as opposed to 36 times for Vega and an astounding 54,000 or so for much more distant Deneb.
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Is Altair a double star?

Altair is a Binary or Multiple star system. Using the most recent figures given by the 2007 Hipparcos data, Altair distance from Earth is 16.73 light years. The star's name is a traditional/name which has been officially recognised by the I.A.U.
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Is Altair a high or low mass star?

As you might have guessed, Altair is a more massive star than our sun, with about 1.7 times the sun's mass.
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Is Altair white?

Altair is a white main sequence dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type A7 V-IVn.
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Altair - The Brightest Star of Aquila the Eagle Constellation



What color is Altair?

Altair is a bright star visible in the summer night sky in the northern hemisphere. A backyard telescope shows Altair, a relatively close star with a blueish-white color.
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What Altair means?

History and Etymology for Altair

borrowed from New Latin, shortened from Arabic al-nasr al-ṭāʼir "the flying eagle," a name for the line of stars Alpha, Beta and Gamma Aquilae.
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What star is hotter than Vega?

Pollux has a surface temperature of 4,865 degrees Kelvin while Vega burns bright with a surface...
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What galaxy is Altair in?

Altair, also called Alpha Aquilae, the brighest star in the northern constellation Aquila and the 12th brightest star in the sky. With the bright stars Deneb and Vega, Altair (Arabic for “flying eagle”) forms the prominent asterism of the Summer Triangle. It is an A-type star 16.6 light-years from Earth.
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What other names does Altair have?

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 (the right, first word having forms from Al Nesr, ranging to An-nisr) Al-ta'ir, "the flying (eagle)".
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What type of star is Sirius?

Sirius, also called Alpha Canis Majoris or the Dog Star, brightest star in the night sky, with apparent visual magnitude −1.46. It is a binary star in the constellation Canis Major. The bright component of the binary is a blue-white star 25.4 times as luminous as the Sun.
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What is Vega and Altair?

Chinese legend has a story involving the stars Altair and Vega. Every year on July 7, the story goes, Vega (a weaving girl) and Altair (a cowherd) meet each other after crossing a bridge — the Milky Way. This is celebrated in an event called the Qixi Festival.
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How do you pronounce Altair?

Pronunciation of Altair

Some creative or alternative ways to pronounce are: OL-tare/Alt-air, ahl-tear. Type of Name: Bird, Eagle, Star.
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What name means galaxy for a girl?

Andromeda: In Greek mythology, Andromeda is a woman who, along with her mother Cassiopeia, was turned into a constellation — and it's also the name of an entire galaxy.
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Which star is the Dog Star?

Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets, the full moon and the International Space Station outshine this star. Because Sirius is so bright, it was well-known to the ancients.
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Who did Altair marry?

Maria Thorpe was the wife of Altair. Since childood, Maria had always dreamed of being a knight. A tomboy in her teens, she was often ridiculed by other children and punished by her parents for refusing to "be a lady".
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What language does Altair speak?

TL;DR Altair likely spoke Arabic and Greek. Ezio likely spoke Italian and Latin fluently and spoke French and Greek near so. Connor spoke English and a Native dialect. Edward spoke English, likely Welsh and very little Spanish.
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Has Altair ever been hit?

In all of the other games, the characters have health bars, not sync bars. This means throughout the entirety of AC1, Altair was never hit.
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