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Its story

In the small Musca, suspended beneath the Southern Cross, shines a yellow sun, a G-type star slightly larger than ours whose light travelled 411 years to us. When it set out, Galileo was publishing the Sidereus Nuncius with his first telescopic observations. At that distance, its golden glow settles discreetly in a tiny constellation, as if trying to go unnoticed in one of the least travelled corners of the southern firmament.