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Its story

It inhabits the keel of Carina, a fragment of the ancient ship Argo broken up by eighteenth-century astronomers. A K-type star with an orange tone and, moreover, a variable: its brightness shifts with an inner pulse. Its light took some six centuries to arrive: it set out when the Black Death was sweeping through Europe and Boccaccio was writing the Decameron. On that keel laden with mythological heroes, it holds a lateral but firm position.