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Its story

It shines in Leo with the quiet gold of a G-type star, a chromatic sibling of the Sun in one of the most recognisable zodiacal constellations of the northern sky. The light brushing the observer now set out about 343 years ago: it was already travelling when Newton published the Principia and classical mechanics began to order the world. Within the lion s outline, this star sits away from the bright head, in a discreet area of the body.