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Its story

113 Herculis is among the last numbers Flamsteed assigned to the kneeling man, a yellow G-type giant whose light —similar in colour to the Sun but cast from a far larger sphere— travels 472 years to reach us. From Earth it barely climbs to magnitude 4.6, yet its surface glows with a warm, gilded intensity, the signature of a star that has already crossed the midpoint of its life.