Hi there star gazers, Trace here -- summer nights are so relaxing, so while you re out listening to the cicadas look for the Summer Triangle and it s quirky star -- Altair!

Let s hit the skies at about 10pm facing EAST.

There you'll see the three bright stars that make up the points of the Summer Triangle, the brightest being Vega in Lyra the Harp, the second brightest is Altair in Aquila the Eagle and the third brightest, Deneb marking the tail of Cygnus the Swan!

Altair is a yellow-white main sequence star (our sun is a main sequence star too).

But, unlike the sun, Altair rotates rapidly -- once every 9 hours!

That makes the star bulge at the equator like an M&M!

In 2006, astronomers were able to image Altair s surface DIRECTLY -- at the time, the only other star we d done that to was the sun!

The sky is full of discoveries, innit!?

Keep lookin up!