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Its story

33 Ceti is an orange giant 768 light-years away, glowing faintly at magnitude 5.97 in the long body of the Whale. At that distance, the light we see tonight set out when the Iberian kingdoms were living through the close of the Middle Ages. Its K type betrays an aged star, with a surface cooler than the Sun's yet swollen to dimensions that comfortably exceed our own.