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Its story

14 Sagittarii is an orange K2 giant some 453 light-years away, suspected of microvariability —its brightness wavers by less than three hundredths of a magnitude. It pours out more than three hundred times the Sun's light and rides over the rich stellar field of Sagittarius, the band of sky where we look straight toward the centre of the Milky Way. Its light, set off in the sixteenth century, arrives after crossing fields dense with stars and galactic dust.