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Its story

The southern Telescope, a constellation traced in the eighteenth century to honour the new instrument of science, preserves a yellow star whose light crossed five hundred and sixty-two years before arriving. It set out while Ottoman armies besieged Constantinople and Europe was entering the Renaissance. It shares the warm hue of the Sun, but its size and luminosity make it an elder sister, an evolved giant whose brilliance has grown with age. Small to the eye, it carries all the serene dignity of mature stars.