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Scutum is a small constellation.Its name is Latin for shield, and it was originally named Scutum Sobiescianum by Johannes Hevelius in 1684. Located just south of the celestial equator, its four brightest stars form a narrow diamond shape.
UY Scuti (BD-12°5055) is a red supergiant star, located 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum.It is also a pulsating variable star, with a maximum brightness of magnitude 8.29 and a minimum of magnitude 10.56, which is too dim for naked-eye visibility.
Stephenson 2 DFK 49 or St2-11 is a putative post red supergiant [3] star in the constellation Scutum, in the massive open cluster Stephenson 2.It is possibly one of the largest known stars with a radius estimated to be between 1,074 solar radii (747,000,000 kilometres; 4.99 astronomical units) [2] to 1,300 solar radii (900,000,000 kilometres; 6.0 astronomical units), [3].
List of stars in Scutum; 0–9. 2MASS J18450079–1409036; A. Alicante 7; Alicante 8; Alicante 10; Alpha Scuti; ... Scutum in Chinese astronomy; Stephenson 2 ...
R Scuti (R Sct) is a star in the constellation of Scutum. It is a yellow supergiant and is a pulsating variable known as an RV Tauri variable. It was discovered in 1795 by Edward Pigott at a time when only a few variable stars were known to exist. [11]
Messier 26, also known as NGC 6694, is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scutum.It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. [a] This 8th magnitude cluster is a challenge to find in ideal skies with typical binoculars, where it can be, with any modern minimum 3-inch (76 mm) aperture device.
Delta Scuti, Latinized from δ Scuti, is a variable star in the southern constellation Scutum.With an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 4.72, [4] it is the fifth-brightest star in this small and otherwise undistinguished constellation.