Pi

Its story

Pi Chamaeleontis is a relatively nearby yellow-white star, about one hundred and thirty-five light-years away, sitting at the centre of the small austral constellation of the Chameleon. Its pale tone recalls the Sun seen from a distance no human craft today could ever reach, and it belongs to the discreet swarm of stars that outline the mythical animal invented by Dutch navigators of the sixteenth century when they first charted the unknown constellations of the far southern sky.