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Its story

Gemini, the eternal twins of the winter sky, hides a yellow G-type star —of solar tone— at 422 light-years. Its light departed around 1604, the year Kepler was observing the appearance of the supernova that would bear his name, the last naked-eye stellar explosion in the Milky Way. While astronomy was living a historic moment, this star was dispatching the light now arriving at magnitude 5.91.