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Its story

In the southern depths of Carina shines a yellow G-type star, distant cousin of the Sun. Its light departed four hundred and seventy-three years ago, when Andreas Vesalius was dissecting human bodies in Padua and modern anatomy was being born. Temperate and luminous, it looks like a warm candle held by a cartographer's hand in the Pacific night. To see it is to return to the century in which curiosity dared to open what was closed.