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Its story

Within the vast Virgo, 505 light-years away, glows an orange K-type star whose coppery light set out when, around 1521, Magellan and Elcano were completing the first voyage around the world and returning the image of a spherical Earth to the common imagination. Cooler and larger than the Sun, its surface hovers near 4,500 degrees and its glow recalls a small bonfire dying slowly in the middle of a field.