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Its story

23 Canum Venaticorum is an orange K-type giant about 509 light-years away, in the small constellation of the Hunting Dogs that Hevelius traced in the seventeenth century. Its amber cast places it in a late phase of stellar evolution, already past the main sequence. Its light set out around the start of the sixteenth century, while Copernicus was quietly rewriting the inherited models of the cosmos.