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Its story

In the heart of Centaurus burns an orange giant whose light set out 433 years ago, when Tycho Brahe was tuning his instruments on the island of Hven and rewriting the Nordic sky. Its amber tone reveals an atmosphere cooler than the Sun, swollen to dimensions that would dwarf our own star. It glows quietly among the great southern constellations, keeping a silent memory of the European Renaissance.