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Its story

At 751 light years in the Stern, this orange K-type star appears at magnitude 5.64 at the edge of human vision. Its light departed around 1275, when Marco Polo was still travelling the routes of central Asia towards the Mongol court. The warm tone of K stars marks them as bodies that have left behind the first fervour of youth and mature slowly, radiating a less dazzling but more persistent glow than that of the hottest stars.