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Its story

In the Little Bear, the small bear that guards the celestial north pole, beats a red M-type giant, cool and swollen like a cosmic ember. Its light takes around 767 years to arrive: what we see today departed about 1259, when Alfonso X the Wise was gathering his astronomers in Toledo to compose the Alfonsine Tables, Castile's first major attempt to measure the heavens with precision. A medieval light reaching modern eyes.