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Its story

Another orange ember in Carina, this time very distant: a K-type star whose light has been crossing the void for more than fourteen hundred years. It set out around the sixth century, when Justinian was ruling Byzantium and promulgating the Corpus Iuris Civilis that would shape European law. Cooler and more golden than the Sun, its glow reaches us filtered through fourteen centuries. To look at it is to see the light of an age when Latin was still sung across the Mediterranean basin.