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Its story

In Monoceros, some 130 light-years away, shines this yellow-white type F star. Its light set out around 1896, the year Becquerel discovered radioactivity by accident and flung open a new physics. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it shares that tempered ivory tone with which the ancients imagined the mythical unicorn's horn crossing the winter skies.