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Its story

37 Capricorni is a yellow-white F-type star 88 light-years away, a relatively close neighbour set against the silhouette of the celestial Goat. Its surface, somewhat hotter than the Sun's, lends it a clean tone and a modest naked-eye glimmer at magnitude 5.7. The light glimpsed tonight set out around 1937, in the years when Bok was beginning to study the small dark globules that would bear his name.