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Its story

In the austral region of Lupus, a constellation forgotten by popular mythology, glows this orange K-type star. Its light set out around 327 years ago, near 1699, when Royal Society astronomers were debating the nature of Halleys Comet and its cyclical returns. Cooler than the Sun yet bulkier, it offers a serene orange. Lupus belongs to the southern belt observed since antiquity by Greeks and Arabs, and this star is one of its many modest sentinels.