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Its story

In the Hare, 147 light years away, this yellow-white F-type star shines at magnitude 5.78. Its light set out around 1879, the year Edison lit his first practical bulb at Menlo Park. Like other F stars, it is somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun and forms that middle band where astronomy often looks for potentially temperate rocky worlds, in habitable zones wider than the solar one.