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Its story

Far away, within the vastness of Centaurus, glows a red M-type star, a cool, swollen giant that has already spent the hydrogen of its youth and now expands with coppery light. Its light takes about 661 years to arrive: what we see today departed in the mid-fourteenth century, when the Black Death was sweeping across Europe and reshaping the continent forever. The Centaur, half man and half beast, watches over that deep ember of the southern sky.