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Its story

In the Hunting Dogs burns an orange K-type star, cool and unhurried, almost a candle in the back room of the sky. Its glow travelled 459 years: it left as Michelangelo s Last Judgement was being given its final touches in the Sistine Chapel around 1567. Calmer than the Sun, it watches the galaxies of the Northern Halo drift past without ever blinking.