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Its story

In austral and quiet Octans, almost touching the south celestial pole, a yellow-white class F star shines from some 204 light-years away. Its light set out around 1822, when Champollion was deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta stone and opening a lost world to European knowledge. This beacon, slightly hotter than the Sun, hangs in one of the least travelled corners of the deep sky.