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Its story

Lacerta, the autumn-sky lizard, guards this yellow G-type star 345 light-years away. Its light set out around 1681, the year the dodo finally vanished from Mauritius according to the last recorded sightings. As one species was disappearing on an Indian Ocean island, this star was dispatching the photons now arriving at magnitude 5.72, a faint echo of a baroque century.