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Its story

25 Virginis is a white A-type star 225 light-years away, in the great figure of the Maiden, well away from the galaxy cluster that dominates the constellation's core. Hotter and whiter than the Sun, it shines with the clean luminosity of a star in full maturity. The light arriving now left around 1801, the year Piazzi discovered Ceres and opened the door to the study of asteroids.