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Its story

5 Tauri burns as an orange giant more than three hundred and forty light-years away, on the outskirts of the Bull where Aldebaran rules the scene. Its cool, steady light was already on its way when telescopes were first being aimed at the heavens. A quiet ember among more famous neighbours —its K-type spectrum betrays an atmosphere cooled by age, far from the youthful fire of the Hyades cluster.