hip-1706

Its story

In Hydrus, the small southern serpent introduced by Dutch navigators in the sixteenth century, glows an orange giant whose light set out around 1455, the year Mainz's press brought forth the Gutenberg Bible. Cooler than the Sun and far more luminous, it wears the coppery tone of evolved stars. Its warm glow crosses more than five centuries to arrive in this quiet southern sky.