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Its story

In Hercules, 632 light years away, this orange K-type star shines at magnitude 5.89. Its light set out around 1394, in the century of the Hundred Years' War between France and England and the first campaigns of Tamerlane. Its warm hue places it in the family of mature giants that illuminate the hero of the northern sky with a serene glow, a soft counterpoint to the more vibrant blue stars that populate other celestial regions.