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Its story

In Gemini, the constellation of the celestial twins, it shines with the orange light of class K stars, but with uncommon power: it belongs to the luminous group, giants capable of greatly exceeding the Sun's brightness. Its glow crossed 2,064 years before arriving: when it set out, Augustus's legions were consolidating the first Roman Empire and the Hellenistic kingdoms were finishing dissolving in the East. It is an aged, swollen, powerful sun, a distant beacon of the firmament.