hip-46859

Its story

In the long Hydra burns an orange giant 740 light-years away, a warm point on the monster's back. When its light set out, the medieval universities of Paris and Bologna were forming the first generations of scholars and scholastic philosophy was flourishing. A class-K sun, cooler than ours yet already swollen in its maturity, it offers an orange glow that seems to stop time among the fainter stars of its surroundings.