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Its story

89 Piscium is a white A-type star strung along the long cord of the Fishes, the zodiacal constellation that traces two silhouettes joined by a ribbon. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it shines from 246 light-years with the cool sharpness typical of A-type stars. The light tracing it tonight set out around 1780, as William Herschel was readying the telescope with which he would discover Uranus a year later.