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Its story

In Centaurus shines an orange class K star at 318 light-years. Its light began its journey around 1708, when the War of the Spanish Succession was leaving deep marks across Europe and Jesuit astronomers were observing the southern sky from Chile and Peru. It is cooler than the Sun and emits preferentially at long wavelengths, which gives it its characteristic golden-orange tone, serene and unchanging over geological ages.