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Its story

Far away, within the small Corona Australis curled at the feet of Sagittarius, shines an orange K-type star, cooler and ruddier than the Sun. Its light needs nearly 1,100 years to cross the void: what we see today departed around the year 925, when the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula —Asturias, León, Pamplona— were beginning to redraw the political map of medieval Hispania. A light born before Spain existed as a name.