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Its story

83 Herculis is an orange K-type giant about 406 light-years away, in the helm of the demigod whom Greek myth pictured kneeling across the sky. Its warm hue speaks of a cooled surface, the signature of stars that have left the main sequence. Its light, set out around the beginning of the seventeenth century, travelled while Kepler was unveiling his three laws and Galileo first turned his glass on Jupiter.