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Its story

Along the long curves of the river Eridanus shines a yellow star whose light has been crossing space for more than three centuries. It set out when Newton was publishing the Principia and formulating the law of universal gravitation, binding with a single equation the falling of apples and the dance of planets. It is G-type like the Sun, but somewhat more luminous and mature, swelling toward its next stage. Its golden tone belongs to those years when physics finally learned to look at the sky with humility.