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Its story

52 Leonis is a yellow G-type star about 287 light-years away, in one of the most ancient corners of the zodiac. Its hue recalls the Sun s; its distance does not. The light we see now set out late in the eighteenth century, while the French encyclopedists were trying to catalogue everything —the celestial vault included. Its modest 5.5 magnitude reserves it for truly dark skies.