Ome

Its story

Omega Boötis is an orange star at 372 light-years, hanging in the Herdsman's cloak just north of bright Arcturus. Its warm tint comes from a comparatively cool surface: a giant in full maturity, long past the blue-white glow of its youth. When its light first set out toward us across interstellar space, Philip II still ruled a Spanish empire on which the sun was famously said to never set.