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Its story

Hydra is the longest constellation in the sky, a serpent gliding across half the vault. Among its scales shines an orange K-type star whose light has been travelling some three hundred sixty-four years. It set out when Velázquez was painting Las Meninas and the court of Philip IV was living its final splendours. Cooler and more golden than the Sun, it radiates with the calm of embers. A light from the Spanish Golden Age, still crossing space.