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Its story

In Dorado, the constellation that guards the road to the Large Magellanic Cloud, shines a yellow star resembling the Sun yet more luminous and mature. Its light has been crossing space for more than two centuries: it set out when Beethoven was premiering his first symphonies and Europe was being shaken by the Napoleonic wars. The little constellation was sketched by Dutch navigators who stitched new figures into the southern sky, and this star is one of its most intimate points, almost domestic in its golden tone.