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Its story

One of the few truly nearby stars in this batch: a solar yellow only 77 light-years away, set in the Crane, that elegant southern silhouette. Its light departed around 1949, the year NATO was established and the Federal Republic of Germany was born —the beginning of the world order we still inhabit. An older sister of the Sun, close enough that its glow still holds the temperature of the postwar.