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Its story

In Canis Major —the great dog that follows Orion through winter nights— a yellow G-type star, a distant cousin of the Sun, has been sending its light for more than seven hundred years. It set out as the first medieval universities —Bologna, Paris, Oxford— were consolidating their authority. It is a forge of nearly solar temperature, but far more distant. To look at it is to glimpse a twin sun whose light has crossed seven centuries to reach us.