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Its story

In Monoceros, the quiet unicorn of the northern winter, an orange class K star arrives from nearly 1294 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 731, just as the Venerable Bede, at the monastery of Jarrow, was finishing his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. That cool, well-travelled and steady beacon sails through a stretch of sky better remembered for its nebulae than for its known stars.