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Its story

In the Keel of the ship Argo, sailing across the southern skies, watches this orange K-type giant. Its light began the journey around the year 1200, when the Knights Templar still guarded the Holy Land and Andalusian culture shone through scholars like Averroes and Maimonides. Cooler than the Sun yet far larger, its warm tone evokes copper lamps lit in the night. What we see is the luminous trace of the Middle Ages crossing the cosmic ocean.