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Its story

Close to the Hunter's shoulders, in Orion, shines an F-class star, yellow-white and somewhat hotter than the Sun, some one hundred and fifty-six light-years away. The light that now defines it set out when nineteenth-century European astronomers were refining the first spectral catalogues and photography was beginning to replace the human eye at observatories. Its pearly tone vibrates on that frontier between the Sun's warm yellow and the cooler white of Sirius.