Lam

Its story

Lambda Aquilae shines blue-white at the head of the Eagle, just 124 light-years away, with a constancy so extreme that the Hipparcos satellite ranked it among the least variable stars in the sky. Three times the Sun's mass and fifty-five times its light, it shares a system with an unseen red-dwarf companion. A cold, steady, almost metronomic light within one of summer's most recognizable asterisms.