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Its story

In Lacerta, the small lizard sliding between Cygnus and Andromeda, shines a yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light crosses space for around 127 years: what we receive today departed about 1899, when Marie Curie and her husband Pierre were isolating radium and polonium in Paris, opening the age of radioactivity. Lacerta was drawn by Hevelius in the seventeenth century as a quiet wink between two celestial giants.