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Its story

In the discreet Southern Triangle shines an orange K-class giant, lying a little over three hundred and forty light-years away. Its coppery light departed when the Jesuit astronomers were measuring the sky from Beijing and Dutch sailors were refining their charts of the southern Pacific. It belongs to that family of ageing stars which, far broader than the Sun but cooler, shine with an amber calm that seems frozen in time.