hip-3583

Its story

In the southern bird of Phoenix shines a yellow G-class star, almost a twin to the Sun in colour, lying barely forty-nine light-years away. The light that now defines it set out around 1976, when the Viking probes were descending onto Mars and the first personal computers were timidly appearing in California. Its closeness makes it, within the catalogue, an almost familiar cosmic neighbour, similar in temperature and colour to our own star.