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Its story

74 Herculis is a cool red M-type giant some 558 light-years away in Hercules, the constellation the Greeks dedicated to the kneeling hero. Its surface, much colder than the Sun's, dyes its light an almost reddish orange, characteristic of stars that have left their nuclear youth behind and swollen like embers. The light reaching Earth today set out during the religious wars of the fifteenth century.