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Its story

It glows orange in Horologium, the pendulum-clock constellation named by Lacaille in the southern sky, about 617 light years away. Its light set out around the 14th century, when Ibn Battuta was crossing the Islamic world and the University of Salamanca was consolidating its authority. A K-type star, cooler than the Sun, with a coppery tone that calls to mind slow fires. It pulses in a sky-region named by enlightened science, like a temporal echo between two eras.