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Its story

Within the scales of Cetus, the cosmic whale coiling through the equatorial skies, shines an orange type K star, cooler and ruddier than the Sun. Its light took roughly 296 years to reach us: it set out when Linnaeus was classifying the first species in Uppsala and the Baroque composers were closing a musical era. It appears today as a warm ember, faithful to the slow drift of the sea monster between Pisces and Eridanus.