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Its story

In the modest southern Telescope shines another orange K-class giant, whose coppery light travelled more than five hundred and thirty years before reaching our eyes. When it left, Europe was watching Constantinople fall and Gutenberg's press was beginning to transform the world of the manuscript. Its atmosphere, far wider than the Sun's but cooler, belongs to that long, serene phase in which ageing stars become patient beacons of the sky.