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Its story

57 Virginis glows with K-type amber light some 125 light-years away, a notable nearness for a star of its brightness. At magnitude 5.21 it lingers barely within naked-eye reach under dark skies, in a constellation dominated by the dazzling Spica. Modest within the Maiden, its warm light arrives after less than two centuries of travel —a brief journey on stellar scales, almost a stroll through the cosmic neighbourhood.