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Its story

A close neighbour in the modest constellation of Pyxis, that little celestial compass imagined by Lacaille in the 18th century. Its yellow light, almost a twin of the Sun's, needed just 63 years to reach us: it set out at the height of the Cold War, when humans were sending their first probes beyond the asteroid belt. A quiet, familiar G-type sun, suspended just beyond our own solar neighbourhood.