Aquila (constellation) (Wikipedia) Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for ’eagle’ and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter’s thunderbolts in Greek-Roman mythology. Aquila was one of the 48 constellations described by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy. 
NASA’s Pioneer 11 space probe, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s, is expected to pass near the star Lambda (λ) Aquilae in about 4 million years. Star Tales - Aquila (ianridpath.com) Aquila represents an eagle, the thunderbird of the Greeks. The constellation’s name in Greek was Ἀετός, i.e. Aetos, meaning eagle. There are several explanations for the presence of this eagle in the sky. In Greek and Roman mythology, the eagle was the bird of Zeus, carrying (and retrieving) the thunderbolts which the wrathful god hurled at his enemies. But the eagle was involved in love as well as war.
