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Its story

On the back of the winged horse of Pegasus pulses an orange K-type star. Its light departed two hundred and forty-four years ago, when William Herschel was discovering Uranus and suddenly enlarging the bounds of the solar system. Cooler than the Sun, its coppery glow arrives with the calm of an ember hung at full gallop. Each flash recalls the wonder of that night when humanity discovered that the sky still held new worlds.