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Its story

63 Orionis is a yellow G-type star set 1310 light-years away on the outskirts of the Hunter, not far from the field traversed by 66 Orionis. Though it shares the Sun's spectral class, its magnitude 5.67 at such a range reveals a luminosity hundreds of times greater —the mark of an advanced giant. The light reaching us now set out in the 8th century, when Europe was barely compiling its first medieval astronomical treatises.