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Its story

60 Hydrae shines in the largest constellation of the sky, that water serpent winding more than a hundred degrees across the southern vault. It is a white A-type star some 332 light-years away, hotter and more luminous than the Sun, with the crisp glow characteristic of stars in its class. The light reaching us today began its journey around 1694, when Newton had already published the Principia and reordered the mechanics of the cosmos.