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Its story

An orange K-type giant burns with serene warmth in the southern Pavo, the bird of a hundred celestial eyes. Its light took more than three hundred and fifty years to reach us, leaving when European kingdoms were signing the Peace of Westphalia and beginning to redraw the modern map. Cooler than the Sun yet enormously larger, its coppery ember brings life to this seldom-traveled corner of the sky.