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Its story

In the small Tucana shines a yellow-white F-type star, only sixty-seven light years away, almost a cosmic neighbor. The light reaching us now set out in the late nineteen-sixties, when humanity first set foot on the Moon and the southern skies were being observed in growing detail from Chile and South Africa. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it is a close sister whose crisp glow recalls those years when space ceased to be a dream.