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Its story

3 Persei is an orange K-type star 245 light-years away, in the northwestern edge of Perseus where the constellation drifts away from the luminous trail of the Milky Way. It glows at magnitude 5.7 —to the unaided eye, a whisper of light that only emerges under truly dark skies—. Its warm hue contrasts with the blue giants that dominate the mythic hero's shoulders toward the east.