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Its story

49 Leonis is a triple system that harbours an eclipsing binary: two stars that, seen from Earth, periodically hide one another, dimming the system's combined light. Ernst-Joachim Meyer discovered those eclipses in 1933. The primary is an A2 main-sequence star about 429 light-years away, on the flanks of the zodiacal Lion. Through a large telescope it also resolves as a visual pair —double in two senses at once.