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Its story

In the vast theatre of Orion shines an orange class K star at 593.1 light years. Its light left around 1432, the year Jan van Eyck signed the Ghent Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb, one of the summits of Flemish art. A surface cooler than the solar one, contained amber, adding a warm note to the stellar cauldron of the most recognisable constellation in the sky.