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Its story

It belongs to Carina, the keel of the ancient ship Argo, one of the richest star-fields of the southern sky. Orange in color and of K class, swollen like a mature giant, it exceeds the Sun many times over in both size and luminosity. Its light took nearly thirteen hundred years to reach us —it set out when the Tang dynasty ruled China and Baghdad had just been founded as capital of the Abbasid caliphate. It shines with that slow serenity of stars that have already left their youth behind.