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Its story

72 Cygni burns some 232 light-years away as an orange K-type giant within Cygnus, the swan flying along the summer Milky Way. Its outer envelope, swollen and cooled after exhausting core hydrogen, gives it that characteristic amber tone. The constellation is crossed by the Great Rift of galactic dust, against which this star stands out like a warm ember. Its light departed around 1793.