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Its story

The Little Horse, one of the smallest constellations in the sky, hosts an orange star whose light set out nearly nine hundred and forty-three years ago, when the Normans were settling in England and Europe was preparing for the First Crusade. It is an ageing giant with a surface cooler than the Sun’s, yet a size and luminosity that keep it visible despite the distance. Its warm tone calls to mind a brazier glimpsed from afar, a small amber dot among larger and better-remembered constellations.