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Its story

In Auriga, the Charioteer of the winter sky, glows a red M-class giant whose light set out over nine hundred years ago, during the First Crusade and the years when Santiago de Compostela's cathedral was rising. Far cooler than the Sun yet immensely larger, it shines in tones of ruby and rust. It is an aged star moving toward the final stages of its life, a reminder that incoming light is always older than any living human story.