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Its story

Within the small male Water-Serpent, Hydrus —that southern snake coiled near the celestial south pole— beats a red type M star, cool and veteran, far larger than the Sun yet of muted fire. Its light took roughly 904 years to cross the void: it set out when Europe was raising its first Romanesque cathedrals and al-Idrisi was charting the known world at the Sicilian court. It now arrives as an ancient and serene ember.