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Its story

It dwells in Antlia, the air pump, another constellation imagined by Lacaille to commemorate 17th-century inventions. An orange K-type star, cooler and older than the Sun, glowing with a contained golden warmth. Its light set out some 312 years ago, when Bartolomeo Cristofori was inventing the first pianoforte in Florence. A warm glint in a southern corner of the sky populated by modest yet meaningful objects.