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Its story

In the keel of the celestial ship, Carina, shines an orange giant whose light has been crossing space for more than three and a half centuries. It set out when European explorers were mapping the South Pacific and French and English navigators were describing islands until then unknown. It is cooler than the Sun yet much larger, a slow K-type bonfire. The constellation, a fragment of the ancient Argo, still evokes those voyages in which the southern sky was an indispensable guide for not getting lost on enormous seas.