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Its story

In the discreet feline of Lynx shines a yellow-white F-type star about one hundred and fifty light years away. Its light set out when the Statue of Liberty was being inaugurated in New York and European inventors were racing to refine the internal combustion engine. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it is an elder sister with a crisp, shining disk. The constellation was drawn in the seventeenth century by Hevelius to fill a patch of sky where only one with the eyes of a lynx could spot the stars.