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Its story

In the celestial Giraffe of Camelopardalis burns an old red giant, cool on the surface yet enormous in size, capable of swallowing entire orbits of the inner solar system. Its reddish light set out more than four centuries ago, in the days when Galileo first pointed his spyglass at the Moon and found mountains where a perfect disk had been imagined. That same light, slow and warm, arrives today like an ancient ember to a sky that keeps watching it without quite understanding.