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Its story

7 Persei sits 820 light-years away, in the constellation of Perseus, the hero who bore the head of Medusa. It is a yellow G-type star, giant and more luminous than the Sun, sending us tonight a light that left its surface when the kingdoms of Castile and León were splitting apart after the death of Alfonso VII. Perseus is famous for the Perseids, the best-known meteor shower of the northern summer.