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Its story

Another solar yellow in Centaurus: G-class at four hundred and fifteen light-years, a distant cousin of the Sun whose light is several centuries old. Hers departed around 1611, the year Galileo and Christoph Scheiner were observing sunspots and arguing over their nature from Italy. Older and more luminous than our own star, she offers astronomers a distorted mirror of what the Sun once was —or will be— in another phase.