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Its story

In Centaurus, the wise creature half-man and half-horse, glows an orange K-type giant 235 light-years away. Its warm light set out in the midst of the French Revolution, around the year the Bastille fell and the old regime began to crumble. Cooler than the Sun but more voluminous, it pulses quietly among the centaur's muscles, far from the bustle of the great celestial capitals.