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Its story

Catalogued by John Flamsteed in 1725 from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, 63 Aurigae is an orange giant of class K4 whose radius has swelled to about thirty-seven times the Sun's. Cooler than our star yet far brighter, it pours out three hundred and thirty-five solar luminosities from 485 light-years away. When that light departed, Tycho Brahe was still recording observations at Uraniborg, unaware his tables would one day reach Kepler.