hip-29294

Its story

Beneath the feet of the hunter Orion, in the silent Hare, beats an orange giant 330 light-years away. Its light departed around 1696, when Newton had just published his «Principia» and was rewriting the laws of gravity for every body in the sky. Old K-types are patient grandmothers: they have swollen tens of times beyond their youthful size and burn helium without haste.