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Its story

5 Andromedae is a whitish-yellow F-type star only 112 light-years away, among the closest in this batch. It belongs to Andromeda, the princess chained to the rock whom Perseus rescues, next to the mythical galaxy that shares her name. Its light takes barely more than a century to reach us: the flicker crossing the pupil tonight left its surface just as, on Earth, the Lumière brothers were projecting the first films in history.