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Its story

A yellow G-type star, distant sister of the Sun in colour and temperature, shines quietly in Eridanus, the long celestial river. Its light set out almost five centuries ago, when Cervantes was sending the «Quijote» to print and the Castilian tongue was discovering its definitive form. After 473 light-years of travel, that golden, unhurried glow arrives as a belated nod to an age that learned to tell the world in words we are still pronouncing today.