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Its story

Within the tilted urn of Aquarius shines an orange type K star, cooler and ruddier than the Sun. Its light took roughly 293 years to reach us: it set out when Bach premiered his St Matthew Passion and European astronomers still debated the elliptical shape of planetary orbits. It now appears as a tempered ember beneath the mythic stream of water that the water-bearer pours eternally across the autumn skies.