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Its story

43 Herculis sits 354 light-years away, on the outskirts of the kneeling Hero of the boreal sky. It is an orange K-type star, a placid giant whose light neither flickers nor drifts with any known companion, anchored quietly in the constellation. Hercules itself is among the oldest recorded constellations: it had already appeared on Mesopotamian tablets nearly four thousand years before Flamsteed assigned it a number.