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Its story

At 506 light years in the Dragon, this yellow G-type star shines at magnitude 5.67. Its light began its journey around 1520, in the midst of the Italian Wars and on the verge of Magellan's circumnavigation. Sharing the spectral family of the Sun, this northern sister embodies the very idea of a moderate star: neither too hot to burn out fast, nor too cold to fade, that temperate band where complex chemistry finds its best stage.