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Its story

Vela once more, this time with an orange K-type star 226 light-years away, a coppery ember in the austral sky. Its light departed around 1800, in the heart of the Industrial Revolution, as Volta was presenting his electric pile in London and opening a new era for energy. It is an exact contemporary of continuous electricity: it arrives now, two long centuries later, at magnitude 5.98.