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Its story

Another orange ember burns in Carina, this one some 263 light-years away. Its light set off around 1763, when the Treaty of Paris was signed and Europe redrew its maps after the Seven Years' War. A K-type giant, cooler and more voluminous than the Sun, it shines with the hue of molten copper, slipping between the white stars of the southern galactic plane.