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Its story

The Centaur, that vast southern constellation linked to the wise Chiron, holds an orange star whose light took nearly nineteen hundred and fifty years to reach us. It set out as Rome was raising its first great basilicas and the apostles travelled the eastern Mediterranean. It is an ageing giant, far more luminous than the Sun despite its cooler surface, that warm tone reminiscent of freshly forged metal. Its fossil light turns every glance into a small archaeology of the firmament, a conversation with a time no longer with us.