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Its story

In Corona Australis —a discreet diadem beneath Sagittarius— shines a K-type star, orange and unhurried, somewhat cooler than the Sun. Its light departed in the late sixteenth century, while Galileo gave his first lectures in Padua and Cervantes wove the misadventures of a hidalgo from La Mancha. Four centuries later, that same gleam —untouched by history— completes its journey in whoever beholds it.