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Its story

In the southern Furnace, some 412 light-years away, shines this yellow type G star, a distant sibling of the Sun in colour. Its light set out around 1614, when John Napier published his tables of logarithms and European mathematics took a leap that would change astronomy. Slightly larger and more luminous than our star, it glows golden within a small modern constellation traced under the skies of the far south.