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Its story

In the quiet constellation of Lynx, this yellow-white F-type sun burns with a clean light, hotter than our own. Its glow travels 52 years to reach us —it set out when the Beatles topped the charts and humans had not yet walked on the Moon—. It belongs to that small group of modest luminaries that reward the patient observer under dark skies, where the mythical lynx blends into the northern sky.