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Its story

In the forgotten horn of Monoceros, the Unicorn, glows this orange K-type star. Its light set out around 470 years ago, when Vesalius was dissecting bodies in Padua and tracing the first modern maps of human anatomy. Cooler than the Sun yet far larger, it offers that coppery tone characteristic of stars that have traveled much of their life. It keeps watch in a quiet constellation, with no famous names, where the darkness lets every glimmer linger a little longer on the retina.