hip-85049

Its story

In the southern altar of Ara burns this yellow G-type star at 1,094 light-years. Its light —a colour kin to our own Sun's— set out around the year 930, when the abbey of Cluny was radiating reforms throughout Christian Europe and al-Andalus was living the splendour of the caliphate of Abd al-Rahman III. It is a distant sun whose glow seems to hold the silence of those high-medieval centuries.