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Its story

8 Lyncis burns yellow in Lynx, that subtle constellation Hevelius traced in the seventeenth century as a challenge to eyesight. It is a G-type star some 170 light-years away, a spectral sister of the Sun but more luminous due to a more advanced evolutionary stage. Its light set out shortly after 1855, when the first transatlantic telegraph lines were being inaugurated and the world contracted in a single stroke.