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Its story

In Puppis, fragment of the ancient ship Argo, shines this yellow G-type star, the same spectral family as the Sun, yet immeasurably more distant. Its light set out 477 years ago, around 1543, when Copernicus published his heliocentric revolution «De revolutionibus orbium coelestium». Though it shares the solar hue, its intrinsic brightness places it in another league: an evolved giant still lighting the southern meridians with mineral patience.