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Its story

A very distant yellow G-class star, 1,186 light years away, in the sails of the old ship Argo. The light peering above the southern horizon tonight set off around the year 840, deep in the Abbasid dynasty, when in Baghdad the House of Wisdom was translating Ptolemy and compiling the Almagest in Arabic. Solar-yellow colour, but with the magnitude of a distant giant.