Tania Australis

Its story

Tania Australis is the «southern» of the Tania pair, the stars that in Arabic tradition formed one of the strides of the Great Bear, the «second leap of the gazelle». It is a cool red giant, swollen and mature, lying 230 light-years away. Its reddish light set out when Europe's kingdoms still measured time with imperfect mechanical clocks and the first cabinets of curiosities were beginning to fill.