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Its story

The Crane —Grus, an austral bird introduced by 16th-century Dutch navigators— hosts an orange K-type star, cool and serene, 291 light-years away. Its light set out around 1735, when Linnaeus was publishing Systema Naturae and beginning to put order into the living world. Magnitude 5.92: a coppery glimmer contemporary with nature’s first great catalog.