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Its story

In the Scorpion's sting, 823 light-years away, lives an orange type-K star whose light departed in the heart of the Middle Ages, when the Crusades were redrawing the map of the Mediterranean. It is an ancient giant: cooler than the Sun yet swollen to enormous diameters, which lets it pour the light of many suns into space. Its amber tone is that of tempered metal, a noble ember holding its glow with the calm of old stars.