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Its story

In Lepus, the hare forever fleeing beneath Orion's feet, shines a yellow star, a relative of the Sun. Its light began its journey 120 years ago, when the Wright brothers were achieving their first powered flight at Kitty Hawk and the first effective vaccine against yellow fever was being discovered. Warm in colour and similar in temperature to the Sun, it shines with the same light that would one day fall upon any world orbiting it.