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Its story

In the Whale, Cetus, shines a yellow-white type-F star 152 light-years away. Its light departed in the nineteenth century, when Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and the United States crossed the heart of its Civil War. Slightly hotter than the Sun, its pearly hue sits between white and gold —a discreet flame that has swum through the void to the rhythm of the celestial leviathan.