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Its story

In Lynx, that constellation Hevelius invented for the sharpest eyes, shines an orange star of K type. Its light set out more than three hundred years ago, around the start of the eighteenth century, when Bach was composing cantatas in Leipzig. Cooler and redder than the Sun, it unfolds that warm amber tone proper to long-lived stars. It is a modest glimmer in a difficult outline: to find it you must accept the lynx's challenge and look at the sky with the patience we usually lack.