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Its story

In Orion, the eternal hunter, shines a yellow-white F-class star whose light set out a century and a half ago, during the early years of modern photography. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its pale-golden tone places it in that temperate band of the stellar catalogue where life, on other worlds, might find its climate. It is a subtle dot upon Orion's winter tapestry, almost a whisper among the giants that dominate the scene.