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Its story

It shines in Perseus, the Greek hero who slew Medusa, a constellation rich in star clusters. A yellow G-type star, similar to the Sun in colour but more luminous, its light took some 391 years to reach us: it set out when Galileo first pointed his telescope at the sky and discovered the moons of Jupiter. A patient sun, suspended along the hero's path across the Milky Way.