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Its story

It belongs to Puppis and burns with the orange flush of K-class stars already advanced in their combustion. Its light set out some 306 years ago, when Philip V was consolidating the Bourbon monarchy in Spain and the Treaties of Utrecht had just redrawn the map of Europe. It is a swollen giant, dozens of times wider than the Sun, and its warm tone contrasts with the blue of many neighbours in the same constellation. It shines with the deep calm of stars that have already walked most of their road.