hip-25993

Its story

In the Dove, 172 light years away, this orange K-type star glows at magnitude 5.45. Its light set out around 1854, in the years when Florence Nightingale was reshaping nursing in Crimea, and reaches us now in a discreet southern sky, far from the great mythological narratives. Its amber tone denotes a photosphere cooler than the Sun's and a slower-paced life, in the quiet maturity of orange stars.