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Its story

Within the solitary Southern Fish, Piscis Austrinus, shines a yellow-white type F star, somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light took roughly 253 years to cross the void: it set out when the French encyclopédistes were publishing their volumes and a young Mozart improvised his first concertos in Salzburg. It now arrives faint, almost at the edge of vision —a pale glimmer on the southern horizon of the autumn sky.