Nu

Its story

An orange giant on the northern edge of Pisces, 363 light-years away in that strip of sky where the ancients saw two fish joined by a ribbon. Its warm light reaches us from a time before the first modern universities were founded, crossing a stretch of the galaxy that feels close to us today and was unreachable then. Already settled into nuclear maturity, it glows quietly among the faint stars that trace the most sprawling — and the most diluted — of the zodiacal signs.