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Its story

It pulses in Carina with the yellow warmth of a G-type star, a distant cousin of the Sun in a southern neighbourhood rarely catalogued by European eyes. Its brightness shifts with its own rhythm —the signature of a restless variable. The light arriving tonight set out in an age without writing or metal, when the first human walkers crossed frozen valleys. In the southern sky it keeps a discreet seat, far from the celebrated figures.