Marsic

Its story

Marsic occupies a quiet corner of Hercules, the hero who strides across the northern sky carrying his twelve labours. A yellow star 367 light-years away, its name comes from the Arabic «al-mirfaq», the elbow, after its anatomical position in the figure of the demigod. Its light takes nearly four centuries to reach us: when it set out, the first gazettes were being printed in Europe and the modern press was being born.