Helvetios

Its story

Helvetios, in Pegasus, is a Sun-like star, nearly a twin in G spectral class and only 51 light-years away. She was named in 2015 in tribute to the Helvetii, the Celtic peoples who inhabited present-day Switzerland, in recognition of the Geneva team that discovered around her the first extrasolar planet orbiting a solar-type star. A pinprick of light that changed humanity's idea of cosmic solitude.