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Its story

Only 87 light-years away, in the sinuous W of Cassiopeia, shines a yellow-white star of class F. Its light set out in 1939, when Europe was crossing the dark threshold of the Second World War. Slightly hotter than the Sun and a touch more massive, it leads a placid existence in the solar neighborhood, almost as close as the stars in school textbooks. A quiet neighbor of the cosmic block.