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Its story

On the back of the Greater Dog, Canis Major —faithful companion of the hunter Orion— shines an orange type K star, cool and veteran, an elder sibling of the Sun in years. Its light took roughly 800 years to cross the void: it set out when the Crusader kingdoms were losing Acre and the slow decline of the Byzantine Empire was beginning. It appears today as a tempered ember, faithful witness to the gallop of the celestial dog behind the Hare and beneath Sirius.