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Its story

In the curved sting of Scorpius, that lethal silhouette of the southern summer sky, burns a yellow giant 792 light-years away. Its light departed around 1234, when the legal codes of Alfonso X the Wise were being drafted in Castile and the written word was starting to structure Europe. An evolved G star, Sun-like but older, sending its glow from that nascent age of law.