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Its story

Just 58 light-years away, in the discreet celestial giraffe —Camelopardalis— pulses a yellow-white F-type star. Its light departed around 1968, as Apollo missions were rehearsing the maneuvers that would carry humans to the Moon barely a year later. It is one of the catalog’s genuinely nearby suns: the photons reaching a telescope tonight shared their era with the first lunar landing.