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Its story

In Pegasus soars an orange type-K star 507 light-years away. Its light departed in the sixteenth century, when Magellan and Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the world and proved with their sails that the Earth was round. Cooler than the Sun but more voluminous, its copper glow is that of giants in their autumn —a slow flame that has ridden five hundred years upon the wings of Pegasus.