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Its story

In the depths of Cepheus, the mythical king of the northern sky, beats a red M-type giant 1098 light-years away. Its variable light set out when the Vikings were founding settlements in Iceland and Greenland, tracing unprecedented Atlantic routes. Cooler than the Sun yet enormous, it swells and shrinks its atmosphere in a slow, deep rhythm. It is a red and ancient voice, a whisper that travelled a thousand years for us to hear it as light.