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Its story

Cosmically close, this yellow-white F-type star shines in Centaurus at about 59 light-years. Its light set out around 1966, when the first Surveyor probes were gently touching down on the Moon and humanity was learning to set hands on another world. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it feels like a younger, more energetic version of our own star, leaning over the southern edge of the sky.