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Its story

1 Sagittarii is an orange K-type giant burning 256 light-years away, in one of the densest regions of the sky: Sagittarius, where our gaze plunges straight toward the centre of the Milky Way. Its warm hue blends with the dusty backdrop of the galactic bulge. An evolved star, cooler than the Sun yet vastly larger, it is a late furnace in the middle of a river of stars.