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Its story

Delta Mensae dwells in the southern polar sky, close to the Large Magellanic Cloud and to the dim vertex of the south pole. An orange type K giant some 424 light-years away, its warm light barely stands out in a field dominated by the silent beauty of the satellite galaxy. Its circumpolar position for far-southern observers makes it a continuous witness to the nightly turning of the firmament, a discreet beacon in one of the most exclusively austral corners of the sky.