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Its story

On the immense skirt of the Virgin shines a red type-M star, a cool ember whose light seems tinted with the deep red of a nocturnal rose. Far colder than the Sun, it would burn patiently for billions of years. Its glow set out 839 years ago, in the heart of the Middle Ages, when the Almohads ruled Al-Andalus and the first European universities were opening their doors in Bologna and Paris.