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Its story

Leo draws across the spring sky the firm silhouette of a resting lion, and in its less travelled corners glows this yellow star — as warm in colour as our own Sun. Its light took about 313 years to arrive: it set out when Newton was publishing the Principia and celestial mechanics finally took mathematical form. A patient G-type sun, it still holds that serene balance between fusion and gravity that defines stars like ours — the inner pact upon which life itself becomes possible.