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Its story

In the sail of the ship Argo, within Vela, a yellow G-type star shines 531 light-years away. Its light set out when Erasmus was writing his works and humanism was flourishing in the European universities. It is a distant relative of the Sun in colour and temperature, yet vastly farther away in space. To look at it is to glimpse a cosmic noon that lit other ages, other thoughts, other worlds imagined by Renaissance minds.