hip-16509

Its story

In quiet Horologium, almost at the southern depths of the sky, an orange class K star travels in from some 312 light-years away. Its light set out around 1713, when the Peace of Utrecht was being signed and Europe was redrawing its borders after the War of the Spanish Succession. Cooler than the Sun and faint to the naked eye, it asks for patience to be found in a corner seldom visited by the human gaze.