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Its story

61 Leonis lies deep within the Lion, far from the bright curve of the Sickle. It is an orange K-type giant glowing with the cold, ancient light of a star past its prime, almost 585 light-years away. The radiance landing in your eyes tonight set out around 1440 —before Gutenberg's first printed page— and has crossed a stretch of galaxy equal to millions of Solar System widths.