Lam

Its story

Lambda Gruis burns within the Crane as a cool, vastly extended M-type red giant some 242 light-years away. In its thin atmosphere, molecules form that would never survive the Sun’s heat; the light escaping from there reaches Earth tinted a deep, ember-like red. Set within a relatively modern southern constellation, charted by Dutch navigators at the close of the sixteenth century, it offers southern skies one of those coppery points that break the dominant blue-white grain of the night.