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Its story

62 Arietis travels from 884 light-years, in the head of the zodiacal Ram. It is a yellow G-type giant, swollen and luminous, whose light set out in the heart of the European Middle Ages —when no eye on Earth yet had a telescope. Today, any human eye barely adapted to darkness can catch it. An ancient ember that has survived whole centuries through nebulosity and galactic dust.