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Its story

Within the lonely Octans, almost over the celestial south pole, shines a yellow G-type star 102 light-years away. Its light set out around 1923, when Edwin Hubble identified variable stars in Andromeda and proved that we live in a universe full of galaxies. A close sister of the Sun in colour and temperature, its surface hovers near 5,700 degrees and its golden light is barely distinguishable from our own.