Omi

Its story

Omicron Pavonis is an M-type red giant in the Peacock about 894 light-years away. Its cool, distended atmosphere pours a coppery light into the cosmos that travels nearly nine centuries before reaching the eye: when this light first set out, the constellations of the southern sky had not yet been charted in European maps, and no one had ever spoken of a Peacock among the stars. To look at Omicron Pavonis today is, in a sense, to receive a message the universe sent before its own name even existed.