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Its story

In the Giraffe, a late and modest constellation of the northern sky, shines an orange star of unhurried light. Its glow began its journey 775 years ago, when Thomas Aquinas was writing the Summa Theologiae and the European kingdoms were preparing for the Eighth Crusade. Cooler and broader than the Sun, its warm tone recalls copper polished by the hands of many generations.