hip-6492

Its story

Within Pisces glows an orange K-type giant, cooler than the Sun yet noticeably larger in size. Its light has been on the road for a thousand years: it departed when Avicenna was writing the «Canon of Medicine» and Islamic scholarship was bridging Greece with medieval Europe. After a thousand light-years, that warm, constant tone arrives tonight as a silent echo of a millennium in which science, far from dying, simply changed hands so as never to be lost.