How to Use Altair in a Sentence

Altair

noun
  • Observers will be able to spot it a third of the way between bright stars Altair and Deneb.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Also like Vega, Altair is about twice the mass and radius of the sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Deneb, Vega, and Altair are the three stars that make up the triangle.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 2024-03-05
  • Look to the southern sky between the Altair and Cebalrai stars to see three clusters well.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2023-08-01
  • In early summer, like now, Altair is roughly 30 degrees above the horizon, a third of the way to the zenith.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2023-07-14
  • Despite its massive size of roughly 1.6 to 2 times the width of our sun, Altair is known for spinning rapidly.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-09-27
  • The brightest is Vega, the southernmost is Altair and the northern apex is Deneb.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 2023-09-01
  • The Altair was generally recognized as the first personal computer.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 2025-04-03
  • The Summer Triangle—formed by the bright stars Vega, Altair, and Deneb—is a prominent asterism that lies along the Milky Way's path.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Several home computers were sold as kits (the Altair 8800 being by far the best known), and Apple was hardly the only early PC maker to start in a garage.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2018-12-06
  • The company was originally created to produce software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 2024-04-04
  • Before Altair, Brown held senior finance roles at NortonLifeLock, Symantec, Blue Coat, Brocade, NETGEAR, and KPMG.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025

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