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Its story

In the boreal lizard of Lacerta gleams a yellow G-type star, cousin of the Sun mislaid among minor constellations. Its light departed three hundred and thirty-seven years ago, when Newton was publishing the «Principia» and reordering the mechanics of the cosmos. Warm and serene, its glow recalls a candle set upon a freshly written manuscript. To see it tonight is, almost, to read the first equations that gave the universe its order.