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Its story

In Lynx shines a yellow-white F-type star sixty-three light years away, an almost close neighbor. Its light set out in the nineteen-sixties, when the first European satellites were already orbiting Earth and radio astronomy was discovering pulsars and previously unseen galaxies. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it is an elder sister whose disk burns with a barely golden white. The constellation, elusive even to the naked eye, suits the discreet character of this nearby, silent star well.