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Its story

In Octans, the constellation that embraces the celestial south pole, shines this orange K-type star, cool and amber in hue. Its light set out 638 years ago, around 1386, when the first stone was being laid for the Cathedral of Milan, one of the great Gothic works of 14th-century Europe. It is one of those quiet stars that watch over the southern pole, a symbolic place for navigators of the southern hemisphere, who have no Polar star to guide them.