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Its story

24 Lyncis is a white A-type star 267 light-years away, suspended in Lynx —a constellation so faint that Hevelius famously said one must have lynx-eyes to make it out. Its surface hovers near ten thousand degrees, giving it that clean blue-white tone without the yellowish cast of the Sun. It is one of the few appreciable lights in a stretch of sky that looks nearly empty to the unaided eye.