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Its story

In Canis Major glows a red M-class giant, a vast cool ember whose light has been wandering toward us for over four centuries: it set out when Cervantes was readying the second part of Don Quixote. Its surface, far cooler than the Sun's, throbs in ruby tones and swells to hundreds of solar diameters. It is the patient afterglow of a star that has spent its youth and is unhurriedly preparing for its final act.