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Its story

In the tiny southern Chamaeleon shines a very distant yellow-white F-type star, more than 1,220 light-years away. Its light set out around the year 804, when Charlemagne was crowning his Frankish empire and Europe was redrawing its political map. Hotter and whiter than the Sun, it arrives after twelve centuries as a thin, pale echo near the southern celestial pole.