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Its story

In Pisces, the zodiacal constellation where the celestial equator crosses the ecliptic at the vernal point, shines an orange K-type star, cooler than the Sun, with that golden ancient light that tinges the sky. Its glow travels close to 394 years to reach us: what we see today departed around 1632, just as Galileo was publishing in Florence his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems and defying the cosmos inherited from Ptolemy.