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Its story

Within the long body of Hydra burns a yellow G-type star, a spectral sister of the Sun but older and more luminous. Its light travels around 286 years to reach us: what we see today departed about 1740, when Linnaeus was publishing in Leiden the first editions of his Systema Naturae and the whole world began to be classified with two Latin words. Far from the noise, this star keeps weaving its silent biography of hydrogen.