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Its story

14 Canis Minoris inhabits the Lesser Dog, the small hound that trails Orion alongside his greater brother. It is an orange K-type giant some 242 light-years away, an already evolved star whose colour betrays a surface cooler and a radius far greater than the Sun's. Its light began travelling around 1784, when William Herschel had just founded modern stellar astronomy with his great reflecting telescope.