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Its story

In Canis Minor —Orion's small companion— dwells an orange K-type star whose light has been on its way for nearly six hundred years. It set out as Joan of Arc was leading the troops of Charles VII and the Hundred Years' War was approaching its end. Cooler and older than the Sun, it shines in that copper hue that signals stellar maturity. A medieval ember kindled at the throat of the celestial little dog, still in transit through the void.