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Its story

8 Leonis is an orange K-type giant 1,161 light-years away, a distance that places it among the most distant stars still visible to the naked eye under good conditions. Its light set out deep in the ninth century, during the reign of Alfred the Great in England. It dwells on Leo's western flank, far from the Sickle that traces the lion's head, a heartbeat from the winter sky.