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Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle', and what it represents is mixed; some say it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greek-Roman mythology, while others say it was the bird that Zeus ordered to attack Prometheus.
Source: Wikipedia
Image source: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
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