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Theta Cancri is an orange K5 giant, swollen to forty times the Sun's radius, 415 light-years away within the Crab. Together with Eta Cancri it completes an irregular box around the Beehive Cluster (M44), one of the oldest and most beautiful open clusters in the sky, though it does not belong to the group itself: it frames it from far behind. A useful false member that points toward the real treasure.