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Its story

Among the celestial Twins, about 416 light years away, a variable orange K-type star breathes with a slightly changing brightness. Its light departed around 1610, just as Galileo was pointing his telescope at Jupiter and discovering its four major moons, suddenly opening the era of modern astronomy. Cooler than the Sun, swollen and warm in tone, it pulses with the faint cadence of aged stars. The brothers Castor and Pollux flank it from afar, letting it shine in a secondary position but with a character of its own.