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Its story

51 Herculis belongs to that crowd of orange stars that yields only to the patient observer. A K-type giant about 698 light-years away, its light departed around the 14th century, while the Black Death was sweeping across Europe. Discreet, cool and golden, it sits in a dense field of stars and is recognised by its warm tone once the eye adapts to the darkness of Hercules.