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Its story

69 Aquilae glows with the calm orange light of K-type stars, cooler and more mature than the Sun. Its radiance crosses some two hundred light-years to reach us from Aquila, the constellation the ancients pictured as Zeus's eagle gliding through the summer Milky Way. In the sky it looks restrained, almost an ember that brightens slowly as the eye grows used to the dark.