Omi

Its story

In Boötes, the figure of a herdsman that drives the Wagon around the pole, this orange giant shines from 243 light-years away. Its warm light is the signature of a star now in the phase where helium ignites slowly at its core — a transition every Sun-like star will eventually face. It lies far from dazzling Arcturus, in a secondary corner of the constellation, where the unaided eye barely finds it as a discreet amber point against the dark.