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Its story

36 Persei is a pale yellow F-type star in Perseus, just 118 light-years away from Earth —relatively close among Flamsteed catalogue stars. It runs noticeably hotter than the Sun and lives near the beautiful Double Cluster, that pair of stellar swarms a trained eye can split into two soft smudges suspended between Perseus and Cassiopeia. A real neighbour of ours, in a distinguished part of the northern sky.