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Its story

In the coils of the circumpolar Dragon burns a red M-class giant, a cool and bloated star whose ruby light took some six hundred and fifty years to reach us. When that glow set out, the first incunabula were being printed in Europe and the Black Death had just redrawn the continent's demographic map. Its deep red — closer to embers than to flame — belongs to stars that long ago left the stable phase the Sun still inhabits.