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Its story

79 Tauri is a white A-type star some 159 light-years away, another small jewel scattered across the outskirts of the Hyades. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it shines with the crystalline purity that betrays young blue-white hydrogen suns. Its light takes a century and a half to cross the space between us: when it set out, the first modern sky catalogues were still being written by hand with quills.