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Its story

Along the long course of the celestial Eridanus —the river of stars— shines an orange giant whose light crossed 467 years before reaching us. When it left, Luther was nailing his theses to the door at Wittenberg and the Reformation was shaking Europe. A class-K sun, cooler and older than ours, its coppery glow recalls the embers that outlast great bonfires —deep, patient, slow to fade.