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Its story

Within the swelling sails of the southern constellation Vela burns a yellow type-G star, a spiritual cousin of the Sun yet stationed at a dizzying distance of 640 light-years. Its glow set out when Joan of Arc was still a child in Domrémy and Europe was struggling out of the medieval mists. It crossed the silence for six long centuries before settling, modest and golden, in this corner of the southern sky.