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Its story

In Orion, the most recognisable hunter of the winter sky, shines an orange K-type star, cooler than the Sun yet noticeably more luminous due to its size. Its light took roughly 875 years to cross space: it set out around 1150, at the height of European Romanesque, when Notre-Dame de Paris and the first universities of Bologna and Oxford were beginning to rise. That patient amber now vibrates beside the hunter.