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Its story

In Orion, the most recognisable hunter of the winter sky, shines a yellow G-type star a mere 49 light-years away —a close, spectral cousin of the Sun. Its light set out in the late 1970s, when the Voyager probes were dispatched toward the edges of the Solar System and humanity first peered at the moons of the great outer planets. It is almost a sister of the Sun, a golden neighbour tucked among the hunter's constellations.