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Its story

75 Cancri is the closest in this batch: a G-type yellow star at barely 101 light-years, set inside the modest zodiacal Crab. At that distance, its light is almost contemporary —it set out in the early twentieth century, when the first aeroplanes could be heard. It is a spectral cousin of the Sun, a slightly older and more mature sister of the star that gives us our days.