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Its story

In the Sails of ancient Argo, Vela, shines a yellow type-G star 423 light-years away, a colour-sister of the Sun. Its light set its course when Velázquez was painting Las Meninas in the Alcázar of Madrid and the Spanish court gazed in wonder at its own reflection. It shares our star's golden warmth, but distance turns it into a whisper —a candle lit in another continent of the firmament.