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Its story

Orion is the most recognisable constellation of the winter sky, dominated by Betelgeuse and Rigel. But among the bright ones there are also discreet stars, like this orange giant five hundred and eighty-one light-years away. Its light left the star around 1444, the year Cosimo de' Medici returned to Florence and the golden age of the Florentine Renaissance began. K-type, warm orange, a warm shadow on the hunter's belt.