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Its story

In Orion, the hunter's constellation that dominates the winter skies, it gleams with the warm yellow tone of class G stars, the same spectral family to which the Sun belongs. Its light took nearly 298 years to arrive: when it set out, Bach was composing his cantatas in Leipzig and celestial cartography was beginning to sharpen with the first systematic catalogues. It is like a Sun seen from afar, a distant sister of our own star, shining among the most celebrated figures of the winter sky.