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Its story

19 Leporis is a cool red M-type giant around 839 light-years away, in the Hare crouched at Orion's feet. Its ruddy tone is the signature of a mild surface; the sheer distance hushes its brightness down to the very edge of naked-eye vision in dark skies. The light arriving tonight set out long before the first movable-type book had been printed in Europe, well before Gutenberg's workshop.