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Its story

In Cygnus, the swan spread across the Milky Way, glows a yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light crosses space for around 167 years: what we receive today departed about 1859, just as Charles Darwin was publishing in London On the Origin of Species and reshaping forever the idea humanity had of itself. The star kept burning, indifferent to the uproar.