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Its story

Some 769 light-years away, amid the meanders of Hydra, shines a yellow star whose light set out when the Crusaders were losing Acre and the Mediterranean was changing hands. Spectral class G like the Sun, its golden hue comes from a surface temperature near 5,500 K. The distance, however, reveals it as far larger and more luminous than our star —an aged giant traversing the last stable chapters before transforming into something else.