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Its story

71 Cygni shines with the warm orange tone of K-type stars, in the constellation of the Swan that crosses the summer sky along the bright trail of the Milky Way. It lies some two hundred light-years away, close enough for its colour to be appreciated through binoculars. Its light departed two centuries ago, in the midst of the early industrial revolutions, and now reaches us as a serene point amid the bright knots of Cygnus.