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Its story

In Gemini, the eternal twins of the sky, pulses a red M-type giant more than two thousand five hundred light-years away. Its light set out toward the sixth century BC, when the pre-Socratics were beginning to seek the principle of all things and the Greek city-states were taking shape. Far cooler than the Sun yet enormously extended, its crimson ember is an echo of a pre-philosophical world still burning between the celestial brothers.