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Its story

Beside the hunter Orion gleams an orange K-type star, a serene ember among legendary giants. Its light departed almost five hundred years ago, when Copernicus was publishing «De revolutionibus» and displacing the Earth from the center of the universe. Cooler than the Sun, its coppery glow falls calmly, like a lantern held up after a cosmic upheaval. To see it is to hear the distant echo of the turn that changed our idea of the sky forever.