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Its story

26 Comae Berenices burns about 273 light-years away, in a stretch of sky where the Virgo galaxy cluster opens out behind every apparent star. A G-type star, similar in colour to the Sun but more distant and luminous, its glow is modest: the light reaching us now left when Galileo's telescopes had already passed into other hands. A quiet beacon in a constellation crowded with remote worlds.