hip-4151

Its story

Just 61 light-years away, in Cassiopeia, glows a yellow-white F-type sun that counts —cosmically speaking— as a close neighbour. Its light reaches us from the mid-twentieth century, when humanity was taking its first steps into space and looking upward with renewed wonder. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it traces a discreet, steady pulse upon the austere W of Cassiopeia.