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Its story

In the modest Dove, a constellation drawn by Petrus Plancius in the 16th century, shines an orange giant 391 light-years away. Its light set out around 1634, when Galileo, by then blind and under arrest, was dictating his last dialogues on motion. K-type stars are bodies that have turned the page on their youth: they burn helium in the core and tint the night an ancient copper.