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Its story

In Hercules, hero of the northern sky, a yellow G-type star shines at about 628 light-years. Its light set out around the fourteenth century, when Europe was crossing the end of the Middle Ages amid Gothic cathedrals and the first universities. It shares the Sun s temperature, yet has already swollen its outer layers into a luminous giant, showing what our own star will become billions of years from now.