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Its story

A white-yellow F-type star burns within the constellation of Lupus, the celestial wolf, slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun. Its light has been crossing space for around a century and a quarter, beginning when Marie Curie was isolating radium and proving that the atom itself could shine from within. After 124 light-years, its pale glow arrives almost as a contemporary, faithful witness to the age in which we learned that even matter held a hidden fire.