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Its story

In Taurus, near the Hyades, hums a yellow-white star 165 light-years away. Its light set out as Marx and Engels were publishing the «Communist Manifesto» and a new political language was spreading through the streets of Europe. A class-F sun, hotter and more energetic than ours, it shines with a creamy white that stands out in one of the oldest open clusters visible to the naked eye, where the stars share a common origin.