Kap

Its story

Kappa Hydri shines quietly in the most austral cycle of the heavens, within the small Male Water Snake that only appears at southern latitudes. It is an orange K-type giant 317 light-years away, an aged and dilated star whose tepid light blends with the diffuse dust of the southern Milky Way. Its journey to our eyes began decades after Cervantes had already written Don Quixote, and crosses a sky European classicism never knew until the great nautical voyages of the sixteenth century.