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Its story

106 Virginis carries the highest number in the Virgin, that vast zodiacal constellation that houses thousands of galaxies from the nearest cluster to the Milky Way. It is an orange K-type giant some 625 light-years away, an old star whose golden glow contrasts with the distant blue of the galactic swarm. Its light set out around the fourteenth century, in the heart of the European Black Death, and now arrives discreetly among more famous constellations.