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Its story

In the small Canis Minor, the little dog that follows Orion across the winter sky, glows a yellow G-type star, a spectral sister of the Sun but older and more luminous. Its light takes around 637 years to arrive: what we receive today departed in the late fourteenth century, when Geoffrey Chaucer was writing The Canterbury Tales and modern English was taking shape as a literary language. The star keeps burning in silence.