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Its story

Deep in Centaurus burns a yellow sun whose light set out around 260 years ago, when Parisian encyclopedists were arguing over the order of the world. It is an elder sibling of our own star —slightly hotter, slightly brighter— stitched into the great southern tapestry. To look at it is to glance back at an age when reason was still written by hand and southern skies were being patiently mapped.