scutum

Some stars, like UY Scuti, an extreme red hypergiant in the constellation Scutum, have a radius 1,700 times our sun, which could fit inside it almost 5 billion times.

The Scutum Constellation guards the Wild Duck Cluster, a collection of stars that resembles a flock of ducks.

But the abundant star type known as δ Scuti7, named after a star in the constellation Scutum, has remained one of the exceptions.

Found globally, these insects are named for their outsized scutellum, from the Latin word scutum, meaning shield.

In 2011 Dame and colleagues used radio measurements to tentatively trace the path of one spiral arm, called Scutum–Centaurus.