Gam

Its story

Gamma Pyxidis is the steadiest orange light in the Mariner's Compass: a K3 giant of the «red clump», where old stars burn helium at a precise point on the stellar diagram. About four billion years old, 22 solar radii across and nearly 180 times brighter than the Sun, at 207 light-years it tints a quiet corner of the southern sky in copper. Its chemistry, oddly enough, is still almost a twin of the Sun's.