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Its story

Once again Circinus, the compass of the celestial astronomer, holds an orange K-class ember, this time quite near in cosmic terms: 248 light-years. Its light set out when the French encyclopedists were publishing volumes on arts and crafts, and the court of Versailles was bustling under Louis XV. A warm, discreet point tracing an arc inside the instrument of the firmament s cartographer.