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Its story

In Leo glows a rare red giant 1,965 light-years away, a cold and enormous ember silhouetted against the spring sky. Its light set out during the height of the Pax Romana, as the Empire stretched under Hadrian and Rome was raising its most perfect temples. A class-M sun, swollen hundreds of times the size of ours and far cooler, it pulses with a deep red gleam that sets it apart at once from its white neighbours.