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Its story

Within the small constellation of the Cup, Crater, glows a K-type orange giant 465 light-years away. The light reaching the night sky tonight set out around 1561, when the looms of Flanders were at their peak and the first great cartographic compilations were being printed. Cooler than the Sun yet far larger, it fills with amber stillness a corner of the sky devoid of brilliant stars.