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Its story

82 Herculis is a K-type orange giant 353 light-years away, set among the muscles of the celestial Hero. Its coppery glow is that of a sun already swollen, leaning into the last phase of its life. When this light set out, baroque Europe was just witnessing the first canvases of Velázquez. It arrives now, patient and warm, like a letter no one was expecting.