hip-5021

Its story

A white-yellow F-type star shines within the W-shaped throne of Cassiopeia, only slightly hotter than the Sun yet brighter and more energetic. Its light set out roughly two and a half centuries ago, when Lavoisier was reshaping chemistry and proving that air itself was a mixture of measurable gases. Across 264 light-years it has carried that pale glow, faithful to the age that taught us nothing burns by accident, neither the candle nor the star.