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Its story

It shines in Vela, another fragment of the ancient Argo split apart by eighteenth-century astronomers. A G-type star, golden like the Sun, lying nearly 400 light-years away. Its light set out around 1628, when the English physician Harvey was publishing his treatise on blood circulation and Europe was rethinking the body from within. On the sails of the mythic ship, it holds a modest post, sustained by its chromatic kinship with our own star.