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Its story

In Gemini, the celestial twins, shines a white type-A star 257 light-years away. Its light departed in the mid-eighteenth century, when Mozart was a child prodigy astonishing European courts with his overflowing talent. Hotter and crisper than the Sun, its white hue recalls freshly polished crystal —a clean glow that adorns the firmament between the shoulders of Castor and Pollux.