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Its story

A yellow light, almost solar, perched on the hare fleeing beneath the feet of Orion. At 160 light-years, its flash departed around 1866, when the first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable was laid and Europe and America began speaking to each other in mere minutes. This star —Sun-like but somewhat older— is also transmitting its message, in light, after a century and a half of travel.