Eps

Its story

Epsilon Gruis shines blue-white on the outstretched wing of the southern Crane, a young star —barely 250 million years old— still carrying the heat of its forging. From a distance of about 129 light-years, it traces with its sisters the long neck of the celestial bird, a constellation first mapped by Dutch navigators at the close of the sixteenth century, when the southern sky was still a blank territory to Europe.