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Its story

Just 71 light-years away, in the cetacean Whale that crosses the autumn sky, shines a yellow-white star of class F. Its light set out in 1955, when the first commercial computer was being unveiled in Europe and the information age first showed its face. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it lives in the immediate solar neighborhood. A close, almost familiar neighbor on a cosmic scale.