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Its story

In southern Indus, a modern constellation born of Bayer's first celestial atlas, shines this yellow-white F-type star. It lies only 91 light-years away —its light departed as Europe was crawling out of the 1929 crash and astronomers were calibrating their telescopes on the newly discovered Pluto in 1930. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it shows a white barely tinged with gold that sets it apart from fully solar stars.