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Its story

Within the quiet constellation of the Sculptor glows a K-type orange giant 450 light-years away. Its light set out around 1576, when the Dane Tycho Brahe was building Uraniborg, the observatory that reshaped modern astronomy. Cooler than the Sun yet considerably larger, it offers its amber tone to a tranquil region of the sky, far from the Zodiac and the great mythological figures.