Zavijava

Its story

Zavijava shines discreetly in the western wing of Virgo, a yellow-white F-type star 36 light-years away, almost an elder sister of the Sun. It goes unnoticed to the casual eye, but astronomers know it well: lying almost exactly on the ecliptic, it was the star chosen during the total eclipse of 1922 to confirm the bending of light by solar gravity predicted by Einstein, one of the early proofs of general relativity.