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Its story

32 Vulpeculae glows orange 583 light-years away, a K-type giant in the small constellation of the Little Fox, just south of the Swan. It belongs to that modest corner of the northern summer sky where the Milky Way thickens with dense star-fields. The light reaching us tonight set out when Cervantes was finishing the first part of Don Quixote, with the Thirty Years War still unforeseen.