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Its story

On the southern flank of Centaurus shines an orange sun, a K-type star cooler and more seasoned than ours whose light travelled 413 years to today. When it set out, Kepler was publishing his first laws of planetary motion. Its amber glow seems to linger in the thick air of the galactic south, a patient ember from which hangs a fragment of the mythical centaur's endless path toward the edges of the sky.