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Its story

In Lynx, that elusive constellation named for its discretion, shines a yellow G-type star some 574 light-years away —a faraway Sun. Its light set out when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and the European Renaissance was finding its epicentre in Florence. It is a star kindred to our own but far more distant, a golden flame barely perceptible to those who know how to look between the invisible folds of the celestial lynx.