hip-36399

Its story

On the horn of the celestial Unicorn shines a yellow-white type-F star, somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun. It is relatively close by stellar standards: barely 89 light-years. Its light set out in the heart of the 1930s, when Edwin Hubble was confirming that the universe was expanding and cosmology changed forever. It arrived in time to light the grandchildren of those who sent it off without knowing.