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Its story

32 Boötis is a yellow G-type star, similar in colour to the Sun but 403 light-years away. It lives within Boötes, the autumn-and-spring figure that hosts brilliant Arcturus and that tradition has identified as a shepherd or celestial ploughman. To observe it is to implicitly compare our own star with one from the same family, separated by a gulf whose light takes four centuries to cross.