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Its story

Far, very far inside Centaurus, a yellow G-type star sends its light from 889 light-years away. The photon we might catch tonight departed when Europe was barely emerging from the Middle Ages and the first mechanical clocks chimed in tower bells. It is a cousin of the Sun in colour and temperature, yet vastly more distant in time and space. To look at it is to glimpse a cosmic noon that happened long before the Renaissance was born.