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Its story

Barely 83 light-years separate the southern Phoenix from this yellow-white class F star. Its light set out around 1942, when Enrico Fermi achieved the first sustained nuclear chain reaction beneath the Stagg Field stands in Chicago and the world was being reshaped by war. Warmer and slightly more energetic than the Sun, this beacon arrives as a recent whisper from a seldom-visited southern sky.