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Its story

57 Piscium is a red M-type giant, an aged star whose brightness varies faintly over time, like a slow heartbeat. Its light crossed nearly seven hundred and seventy light-years to reach us, setting off when the Byzantine Empire was still standing. In the autumn sky, Pisces unfolds a winding ribbon of faint stars, and within that figure rests this cosmic ember moving toward the end of its stellar life.