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Its story

Its orange light left Andromeda around the year 1104, when the Crusaders were consolidating Jerusalem after the First Crusade and Compostela was drawing pilgrims from all over Europe. It is a K-type star, cooler than the Sun, with a coppery glow that recalls dusk. Andromeda harbours the spiral galaxy nearest to our own, a faint smudge that the human eye can still recognise under dark skies.