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Its story

In the small Lizard of Lacerta, hidden between Cygnus and Andromeda, shines this yellow G-type star, a solar sibling. Its light set out around 299 years ago, near 1727, when Isaac Newton died and the world mourned the man who had explained gravity. As hot and as yellow as the Sun, it looks like its reflection in a distant mirror. Lacerta is a recent constellation, drawn by Hevelius in the 17th century; this star is one of its few known faces, quiet and familiar.