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Its story

89 Aquarii shines blue-white from 504 light-years, an A-type star whose surface temperature would make the Sun look like a yellow ember. Its light, which left Aquarius in the late Renaissance, has crossed the clean space between us to surface at magnitude 4.71 against the closer weave of stars in the Water Bearer. It belongs to that generation of fast, pristine suns that have not yet begun to age.