hip-103360

Its story

On the Swan's wing, 765 light years away, a yellow G-class star shines with the sheen of our own Sun but already aged. The light crossing the summer sky tonight set off around 1260, when Thomas Aquinas was composing the Summa Theologiae in Paris. Warm yellow colour, no variability or detected companion: the Hipparcos archive holds its signature, the rest belongs to silence.