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Its story

Beneath the silent atelier of Sculptor, a modern constellation outlined by Lacaille, shines this yellow G-type star, about 270 light-years distant. Its light departed around 1755, when Lisbon was rebuilding after the devastating earthquake and Diderot was publishing new volumes of the Encyclopédie. Slightly more luminous than the Sun, it carries the warmth of an evolved G. It now reaches us as a luminous postcard from the mid-eighteenth century.