Eps

Its story

Epsilon Scuti dwells in the modest Shield, the constellation that Hevelius christened in 1684 in honour of the Polish king John Sobieski. A yellow type G giant some 538 light-years away, it rests upon one of the densest star fields of the Milky Way, a region so rich that old guides speak of it as a milky treasure. Though its brightness is discreet, it lies very close to the celebrated Scutum Star Cloud, a host of distant suns that only a dark sky reveals.