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Its story

On the keel of Carina breathes an orange sun, a settled K-type star whose light took 790 years to reach us. When it set out, the universities of Paris and Bologna were debating the Arabic translations of Aristotle. Cooler and older than our Sun, its golden atmosphere recalls the embers of a well-tended fire —the kind of warmth one associates with the end of a long, clean day under southern skies.