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Its story

A modest yellow G-type star, kin to the Sun in colour and temperature, hangs in the small southern constellation of Octans, near the celestial pole that marks the south. Its light has travelled only some ninety years, beginning when Edwin Hubble revealed that the galaxies were rushing apart and the universe itself was expanding. Across 89 light-years it carries a glow almost contemporary, a quiet reminder of the century that finally measured the size of everything.