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Its story

In the depths of Virgo burns a red sun, an old and vast M-type star whose light set out 2,297 years ago. When it began its journey, the legions of the Roman Republic were advancing across the Italian peninsula and Aristotle was teaching at the Lyceum. Far cooler and more swollen than our Sun, it offers a muted ruby, an autumnal flame that prefers to burn long over burning fast —and has been doing so quietly for millennia.