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Its story

Suspended in Ophiuchus, this yellow class-G star echoes the colour of our Sun, yet beats much farther away —its glow has been travelling 412 years before reaching us. When it released the light we see today, Galileo was refining his telescope in Padua and rewriting celestial physics. Older and likely more luminous than the star that warms us, it offers a glimpse of the Sun's distant future.