Rho

Its story

Rho Cygni is a yellow type G star hanging from the wing of the great swan, about 124 light-years away. It is a distant cousin of the Sun —same spectral class, comparable brightness beneath alien skies— yet already a giant, swollen by the passage of time. The Northern Cross unfurls around it like a luminous trail of the summer Milky Way, and Rho holds a quiet but steady place in that vast plumage.