Xi

Its story

Xi Sculptoris is an orange K-type giant about 514 light-years away, set in one of the darkest regions of the sky: the Sculptor, far from the galactic plane, where the gaze leans out almost into the void between distant clusters. Its warm ember shines there without rival, against a backdrop where the Milky Way withdraws and the eye, free of that luminous veil, can glimpse galaxies tens of millions of light-years away. Xi itself, by contrast, sits just around the cosmic corner.