Eps

Its story

Epsilon Canis Minoris is a luminous yellow giant — a relative rarity, with a G6 IIb spectral class. At 1,042 light-years, it shines far more brightly than its modest apparent magnitude suggests. Its surface carries heavy isotopes forged in another, now-vanished star: a companion that went through the asymptotic giant phase, poured material onto its surface, and faded into a white dwarf. A two-act story written in its chemistry.