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Its story

In Puppis, once part of the mythical ship Argo, it shines with the orange light of class K stars, cooler than the Sun. The light observed set out 272 years ago: when it did, Voltaire was publishing his polemical writings in Paris and the first steam engines were beginning to transform manual work in England. It is a stable star, with no variability or companion, one more among the golden suns studding the southern regions of the sky through which the ancient Argo sailed.