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Its story

It vibrates in Scorpius with the orange light of a K-type star —the colour of embers and slow-closing dusks. Its light took almost seven centuries to arrive: it set out when Dante was finishing the Divine Comedy and the Florentine guilds were polishing the very idea of Europe. Within the scorpion s silhouette, one of the most recognisable in the sky, it lodges in a modest area. A warm companion for a constellation of fire.