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Its story

In Sagittarius, where the Milky Way thickens toward the galactic centre, shines an orange class K star some 294 light-years away. Its light set out around 1731, the year John Hadley presented his octant to the Royal Society and ocean navigation took one of its most decisive leaps. That cool, golden beacon has finally arrived after three centuries of silent travel through the southern star-clouds.