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Its story

In the kneeling Hercules shines this orange K-type giant, whose light took four hundred thirty-five years to cross the void. It departed around the sixteenth century, when in 1591 Shakespeare was staging his first plays in London and a new theatrical language was being born. Cooler than the Sun but immeasurably larger, it unfolds a coppery glow in a region of the sky strewn with deep-sky treasures, part of the steady landscape of northern celestial mythology.