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Its story

In Hercules shines a yellow type-G star 313 light-years away, a chromatic sister of the Sun. Its light departed in the late seventeenth century, when Huygens was designing the pendulum clock and time learned to be measured with almost musical precision. It shares our star's warm gold of G stars, yet shines far beyond —a solar echo that has crossed three full centuries to reach the Earth.