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Its story

In Aries, the first of the zodiacal signs, shines an orange class K star some 526 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 1499, when Vasco da Gama was returning from the first European sea voyage to India and global trade was shifting its axis forever. That golden, cool, ancient glow sails through a sky in which humanity searched for its own destiny for millennia.