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Its story

Within Centaurus shines a yellow beacon whose light, set adrift 389 years ago, was already in flight when Galileo trained his lens on the moons of Jupiter. It shares the Sun's chromatic lineage —a mature G star, golden and warm— but swollen into a girth dozens of times wider. Its modest gleam to the unaided eye traces a quiet bridge between the southern sky and the human curiosity that was then beginning to pierce the firmament.