Veritate

Its story

Veritate, 'truth' in Latin, was given its modern name in 2014 through a public naming campaign organised by the International Astronomical Union. It is a K-type orange giant lying in Andromeda, about 258 light-years away, and hosts at least one planet detected through radial-velocity measurements. The light arriving tonight set out around 1768, the year Captain Cook left on his first Pacific voyage.