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Its story

In Perseus —the hero who lifts the Gorgon's head— shines an orange K-class giant whose light departed around 1521, when Magellan was attempting the first circumnavigation of the globe. Cooler than the Sun and far more voluminous, it casts a coppery glow, lukewarm and steady. You will find it as a quiet sparkle among the constellation's better-known stars, a reminder that most suns watching over us need no name to burn.