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Its story

In Cygnus, above the summer Milky Way, glows an orange K-type star. Its light crossed 372 years: it set off around 1653, as Cromwell proclaimed himself Lord Protector of England and dissolved the Long Parliament. Cooler than the Sun, it pulses among the spread feathers of the celestial swan, lost amid the thousands of suns hanging from the galactic river.