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Its story

In the modest constellation of Pyxis shines this yellow G-type star, a distant sister of our Sun lying two hundred twenty-three light years away. Its light began its journey around 1802, the year Beethoven composed his Second Symphony in Heiligenstadt while confronting the loss of his hearing. Warm and golden, it recalls the star that sustains us, but seen from a southern corner where the Mariner's Compass guides the eye across the sky.