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Its story

In the austral Sculptor, where the eye peers into other galaxies of the Local Group, glows this orange K-type star. Its light set out around 334 years ago, near 1692, when the Salem witch trials were shaking the American colonies and reason was still pushing through superstition. Cooler than the Sun yet swollen by time, it offers a peaceful orange. Its surroundings are a clean sky, nearly without obstacles, where its distant glow can be contemplated unchallenged.